McCloud Season 3 Episode 2: The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
McCloud Season 3 Episode 2: The Barefoot Stewardess Caper
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The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams 1974 CALIFORNIA’S “GREATEST MOUNTAIN MAN”
THE LEGACY OF GRIZZLY ADAMS The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams is a 1974 independent feature film inspired by a 1972 historical fiction novella written by Charles E. Sellier Jr.. The film's popularity led to an NBC television series of the same name. The title character, played by Dan Haggerty, was loosely based on California mountain man James "Grizzly" Adams (1812-1860), whose real name was John Capen Adams, a one-time Boston shoe and boot maker.
https://grizzlyadams.com/history-of-grizzly-adams-bio/
One of the most amazing frontier biographies ever documented is the story of the ‘real’ Grizzly Adams.
A western mountain-man legend, Grizzly Adams’ birth name was ‘John Capen Adams’ when he was born in Medway, Massachusetts in 1812. He was the second eldest of seven siblings who grew up in a rural farm household run by his father and mother, Eleazer and Sibel Adams. His impressive family tree included two United States presidents and Revolutionary War patriot, Samuel Adams.
As he grew to manhood, John C. Adams recognized a unique ability he had when it came to understanding the behavior of wild animals. This talent came in handy when he was hired to help manage a traveling display of wild animals shipped over from Africa. The twenty-one year old Adams was employed as a caretaker for the troupe until fate played its hand when he was nearly killed by a Royal Bengal Tiger. Bedridden for months, after enduring a year-long recovery process he then opted for a safer trade as shoe cobbler, something his father had him apprentice at during his teen years.
In due time, while still a young man, John C. Adams started his own business making shoes and boots in Boston, just as former President John Adams’ father had done. He also married one Cylena Drury and began raising a family. In 1849, however, he and his father lost their combined savings in a business venture that went up in flames causing financial ruin to both, that subsequently led Eleazer Adams ending his own life. After that, a despondent John C. Adams left Boston a broken man to head west with the multitude of other Great California Gold Rush participants, promising to send money home whenever he could.
Celebrated showman Grizzly Adams in
San Francisco, cira 1858
In California, after the “numerous hardships and privations” Adams endured getting there, he settled near Stockton where he began mining for gold. He was industrious and soon became a land owner and an employer of several men who helped run his own sluice operation. Unfortunately though, his trusting nature enabled low-end business sharks to repeatedly con him out of his gold claims, to a point where by late 1852 he’d had enough, and decided to turn his back on civilization.
Once again disheartened by misfortune, John C. Adams had finally had enough, and decided to set out with his last meager provisions he loaded onto a creaky ox-cart he, “needed to soak for a week” in order to keep it together. He then pointed himself toward highland wilderness of central California, and after trekking a hard two-hundred miles he stopped near the great Yosemite Valley where he built a cabin surrounded by wildlife and Native American tribes—just in time for winter to set in. He later recalled that period of solitude as the ‘most satisfying’ of his entire life.
“In the fall of 1852, I abandoned all my schemes for the accumulation of wealth, turned my back upon the society of my fellows, and took the road toward the wildest and most unfrequented parts of the Sierra Nevada, resolved thenceforth to make the wilderness my home, and the wild beasts my companions.”
While adapting to his new environment, John C. Adams learned to commune with nature and to become an expert hunter, tracker, and provider for himself and his Miwok Indian neighbors. As well, beyond engaging in his newfound hobby of collecting a wide variety of living wild animals, he also captured, raised, and trained grizzly bears lending to his soon earned nickname of “Grizzly Adams.”
Using some of his trained bears as pack animals, Grizzly Adams led many tracking expeditions far and wide through the western frontier, always disembarking from his central California encampment. He not only managed to traverse the bulk of California, but he trekked well beyond its limits as far north as the Canadian border, as far south as the Mojave Desert, and as far east as Montana and Salt Lake City. He generally hired Indian scouts to help him on his journeys as well, further solidifying his relationships with different tribal leaders as his ‘Grizzly Adams’ legend grew. So much marked a key difference with Grizzly Adams when compared to other mountain men of his era, who often boasted themselves to be ‘Indian hunters’ as well. Lest if be forgotten that many ‘down on their luck’ gold miners making under a dollar a day found it hard to resist the “$5 each” offer for Native American scalps.
Grizzly Adams saw things differently. He spoke highly of the integrity of the Native Americans he befriended, worked with, and traded with. He also described them as “fair and honest people” in their lives and doings, and he greatly valued the symbiotic relationship he nurtured with them.
For a few years, into 1856, Grizzly Adams tracked, hunted, and collected animals for a living during his self-exiled mountain-man life until he grew tired of it, and he opted to relocate to San Francisco after being offered a chance to make money by putting on shows with his live bears and other animals. [Note: Grizzly Adams was erroneously described in some accounts as a person who had ‘hunted relentlessly in the mountains for ten years.’ This was far from the truth. The total time he spent in California mountain ranges was about two and a half years, during which time he scouted, hunted, and traded with Native Americans who much appreciated the supplement of meats and furs his skill afforded them. Not to leave out, hunting was a way of life back then and and frontiersmen such as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone were also renowned for their prowess at it. It is true, however, different hunting methods common in the 1800’s are unthinkable today, with many having been outlawed over the years.]
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In 1856, Grizzly Adams entered San Francisco in grand fashion with a parade on Market Street featuring his large menagerie of bears and other animals. He began running his own enterprise there while readapted to city life, and in due time he and his ‘Mountaineer Museum’ became so popular that news reporters started to take notice. One young reporter in particular, Theodore Hittell, wrote an impressive series of articles about Grizzly Adams and his animals causing the new city-dwelling mountain man to attain celebrity status. [Hittell would eventually go on to become a recognized California historian.]
Adams was initially billed as “The Wild Yankee” at Thomas Maguire’s opulent Opera House and his Theater Americana in San Francisco, but the name was soon replaced by his more recognizable moniker, “Grizzly Adams.”
For four years, Grizzly Adams regularly performed with his bears and other animals in his cavernous Mountaineer Museum (located in the basement of the former Stock Exchange building) and San Francisco’s most notable theater venues. With his favorite grizzly bear companions, Benjamin Franklin, Lady Washington, Funny Joe and General Fremont, he embraced his newfound notoriety that left him greeting the likes of future Civil War General, William Tecumseh Sherman, Levi Strauss, Domingo Ghirardelli, and the indomitable Lola Montez, AKA “the Countess of Landsfeld” as she was known during her European days. (Miss Montez had her own pet grizzly bear and was known for performing her infamous ‘Spider Dance’ to throngs of wage-spending miners, and for her dalliances with some of San Francisco’s upper-crust male denizens.)
Within the sordid political scene of San Francisco then, Grizzly Adams also witnessed Governor Neely Johnson’s controversial vigilante’s movement of the mid-1850’s that had been assembled to curtail the city’s reputed lawlessness.
Famous goldrush era artist, Charles Nahl’s 1856 woodblock etching of Grizzly Adams along stride of his favorite pet grizzly bear, Benjamin Franklin
Notwithstanding the city’s many other entrapments, Grizzly Adams ended up enjoying his new life there more than he thought he would. Always wearing his buckskins, he could often be seen strolling with his favorite bear, Ben on Kearny Street to one of its several different restaurants he would choose to dine at—while the docile bear remained tethered outside in his sight. His extensive overhead required significant funding, though, as the bulk of his animals, especially his bears had special boarding needs that required much tending from hired help, and so much food that it proved difficult for the mountain man turned ‘showman’ to get ahead financially.
No matter, for Theodore Hittell, the aforementioned reporter who wrote for the San Francisco Bulletin, was so taken by Grizzly Adams that he ended up compiling enough journals about the mountain man it enabled him to assemble a vast chronological account of Grizzly Adams’ fascinating adventures. For whatever reason, though, Grizzly Adams, who often used aliases while out west, used the name of his brother, ‘James’ to identify himself to Hittell, leaving him to be mistakenly attributed in Hittell’s later published work about him as, ‘James Capen Adams.’
Daguerreotype of Grizzly Adams by famous Civil War photographer Mathew Brady in Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper 1861
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As the novelty of his animal shows began to fade, fate again stepped in to play its hand with Grizzly Adams. First, he sustained a head wound during a wrestling exhibition with one of his bears that proved difficult to heal. Not too long after that, in late 1858, an unknown illness caused the death of his star bear, Benjamin Franklin that left Adams heartbroken. Realizing his health was in jeopardy due to his head wound, and still grieving over the loss of Ben, (the bear received a celebrity-worthy eulogy in the paper) Grizzly Adams began longing for home and decided to leave San Francisco to head back to the east coast—to New York, specifically. He managed to do so with as many of his animals as he could load onto a ship that would sail him around Cape Horn on an epic ‘Noah’s Ark like’ adventure.
Grizzly Adams departed from San Francisco’s Bay harbor in early January of 1860, aboard the clipper ship, ‘Golden Fleece’ that he had loaded over sixty animals onto. His menagerie included his remaining bears, some foxes, wolves, antelope, a bald eagle, a few reptiles and a giant sea lion.
The arduous journey took three months, and Grizzly Adams, with his head already injured from bear wrestling, re-injured it during the ocean voyage doing the same thing, this time enough to where it left him coming to terms with the sharp reality of knowing he would never fully recover.
Grizzly Adams was as tough as they came though, and after he arrived in New York City he again proudly paraded his troupe of bears and other animals on Broadway while heading for the office of P.T. Barnum—where the famous showman, who had already purchased an interest in Adams’ impressive menagerie, quickly signed him to a performance contract. As Barnum’s ‘Old Grizzly Adams’ act became popular in New York City, Adams was also reunited with his wife, Cylena, who he had managed to send some money to via post by ships that dropped mail off in Panama’s western port to head overland to a new awaiting ship on the other side. This happened a few times during Adams’ long absence from his wife and three children. The couple’s reunion was bitter-sweet, though, as Adams’ health began failing to a point where Cylena found herself serving as a nurse for her decade-long estranged husband in between his performances.
By the fall of 1860, John ‘Grizzly’ Adams could no longer perform and Cylena felt it was best that he return to Boston so he could spend his last days with his family. Grizzly Adams soon after died on October 25, 1860, three days after his forty-eighth birthday, and just a few weeks before the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
P. T. Barnum paid for Adams’ funeral and burial in Charlton, Massachusetts, in the same cemetery Adams’ father, Eleazer was buried, who had hung himself in 1849. The famous mountain man’s headstone is still there today; his wife, Cylena and one of their daughters are buried near him.
There is no measuring the influence Grizzly Adams had on P.T. Barnum, especially when it came the way the famous show promoter viewed the profitable future of circus animals. The legendary Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus that lasted well into the Twenty First century gave testament to that. Certainly Adams was one of the original American animal pageant leaders to parade a large troupe of exotic wild beasts into major cities, a tradition that stuck with most all major circus acts later on, mostly for practical reasons, especially with elephants. Some of his animals also contributed to the start-ups of both the San Francisco and the New York City Zoos. It was even remarked how into the Twentieth Century, descendants of a few animals once owned and raised by Grizzly Adams were still attractions in both places.
EPILOGUE
The incredible gold rush era story of Grizzly Adams is an epic saga that left an indelible stamp on modern American culture. His 1960’s biographer, Richard Dillon, even described Grizzly Adams as, “perhaps the greatest individualist California ever produced.”
Other written accounts of Grizzly Adams’ life along with the 1970’s motion picture and popular TV series inspired by his many exploits, left Grizzly Adams deservedly recognized with iconic status. It can even be said, the countless miles of north-to-south western frontier trails he blazed created a metaphor equal to one man’s settling of the west on his own terms.
Charles Nahl drawing of Mountain
Man Grizzly Adams, 1856
Due to the numerous mis-projections about the life he led, the ‘famous historical American’ credit due to Grizzly Adams is truly lacking today. After all, few people, if any really, participated-in and then endured the California Gold Rush with the end result leaving them famous on both the west coast and east coast at the same time. It’s true, over a five year time period, from 1856 through 1860, Grizzly Adams became famous in both places. He was, perhaps, the first United States ‘coast to coast’ recognized celebrity after California became a state, before the advent of the Civil War erased the significance of his accomplishment.
No doubt the most surprising part of Grizzly Adams’ historic legacy appears on a famous flag. Few are aware that the same bear image seen for over a hundred years on California’s state flag was modeled after a grizzly bear named ‘Samson’, painted by famous western artist Charles Nahl in 1855. Even fewer realize that Samson was a huge, live bear that Nahl chose to paint, originally captured and owned by California’s greatest mountain man ever – the one and only, Grizzly Adams.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA FLAG
“In the fall of 1852, I abandoned all my schemes for the accumulation of wealth, turned my back upon the society of my fellows, and took the road toward the wildest and most unfrequented parts of the Sierra Nevada, resolved thenceforth to make the wilderness my home, and the wild beasts my companions.”
– Grizzly Adams
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Against a Crooked Sky Theme Song/Sound Track - Jewel Blanche 1975
Against a Crooked Sky Theme Song/Sound Track - Jewel Blanche 1975
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Charlie Chan At The Circus - 1936
Charlie Chan takes his wife and twelve children on an outing to a circus after receiving a free pass from one of the owners, Joe Kinney. Kinney wants Chan to find out who is sending him anonymous threatening letters. Nearly all of the circus workers are suspects, since Kinney is very unpopular. However, when Chan goes to meet him during the night's performance, he finds the man dead, seemingly killed by a rampaging gorilla who somehow escaped from his cage.
Lieutenant Macy takes charge of the investigation, assisted by Chan and his overzealous eldest son Lee, who also takes the opportunity to (unsuccessfully) romance Su Toy (Toshia Mori, credited as Shia Jung), the contortionist. On Chan's advice, Macy lets the circus continue on to its next stop, with the trio tagging along. During the train ride, an attempt is made to murder Chan with a poisonous cobra.
Then someone tries to break into the circus's safe, but nothing is missing. Macy finds a marriage certificate inside, showing that Kinney supposedly married circus wardrobe lady Nellie Farrell in Mexico. However, Kinney's fiance Marie Norman claims that she can prove Kinney was not in Mexico the day indicated on the certificate. Before she can prove it, during her act, someone shoots one of the ropes of her trapeze swing and she falls to the ground, seriously injured, but still alive.
A doctor is summoned. Chan states that Marie is too badly hurt to move, so the doctor must operate on the spot. Chan asks everyone to keep quiet and clear the area, so as not to cause a potentially fatal distraction for the medical staff during the delicate operation.
Meanwhile, Chan has noticed a newspaper article about a crime committed at a casino the day of Kinney's alleged marriage. He sends his son to phone for a description of the crooks involved from the police. When Lee returns, he sees a man slug the policeman guarding the gorilla's cage and let the ape out again. He struggles with the man, but is knocked out.
The gorilla reaches the tent where the operation is in progress and tries to cause trouble. The operation is a fake, as is the gorilla. He is shot to death by policemen masquerading as doctors. It is revealed to be snake charmer Tom Holt in a costume, trying to pin a second death on the escaped animal. He and Kinney had robbed the casino and hidden out at the circus. However they had had a falling out over the division of the money, leading to Kinney's murder. Nellie Farrell and her brother Dan are also arrested for trying to use a forgery to gain half interest in the circus. Charlie Chan agrees to obtain a lifetime pass to the circus for his family. He sees Lee Chan and Su Toy having some romance together wondering if any future grandchildren will be able to see the circus, too.
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Happy Days Theme Song - Original/Complete
Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, it was one of the most successful series of the 1970s.
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McCloud Intro - NBC Mystery Movie 1970-1977
McCloud is an American police drama television series created by Herman Miller, that aired on NBC from September 16, 1970, to April 17, 1977. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years as part of the NBC Mystery Movie rotating wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television. The show was centered on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico, who was on loan to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.
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The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility by Morgan Robertson read by Joseph DeNoia | Full Audio Book
(This novella was written 14 years before the Titanic set sail)
The Titan: the latest and most awesome industrial feat of modern luxury ocean liner, holding two thousand passengers, is set to sail the Northern Lane Route between New York and England. This alleged unsinkable and indestructible vessel is set to beat the record for this voyage in less than 5 days! In her crew: John Rowland; a drunk, and washed-out naval seaman. On the passenger list: Myra Selfridge, and her little daughter. A former lover who wants nothing to do with Rowland, due to his drinking. After a collision with an Iceberg and all hands deemed lost, Rowland finds himself fighting for life on an ice floe...and in his charge: keeping alive Myra's little daughter! (This novella was written 14 years before the Titanic set sail) - Summary by Joe DeNoia
The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility by Morgan Robertson (1861 - 1915)
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction
Read by: Joseph DeNoia in English
Cover design by Annise.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Chapter I
00:08:19 - 02 - Chapter II
00:20:29 - 03 - Chapter III
00:29:26 - 04 - Chapter IV
00:41:10 - 05 - Chapter V
00:49:13 - 06 - Chapter VI
01:09:08 - 07 - Chapter VII
01:20:49 - 08 - Chapter VIII
01:31:03 - 09 - Chapter IX
01:43:11 - 10 - Chapter X
01:53:42 - 11 - Chapter XI
02:09:17 - 12 - Chapter XII
02:21:36 - 13 - Chapter XIII
02:35:17 - 14 - Chapter XIV
02:42:55 - 15 - Chapter XV
02:53:04 - 16 - Chapter XVI
More information: https://librivox.org/the-wreck-of-the...
LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)
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One Step Beyond - "Night Of April 14th" - [TITANIC - Full Episode]
Episode aired Jan 27, 1959
A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.
Based on True Life Events - One Step Beyond aired from 1959 to 1961.
https://www.ranker.com/list/full-list-of-one-step-beyond-episodes/reference
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The Twilight Zone - The Obsolete Man
"Librarian Romney Wordsworth is judged obsolete and sentenced to death by a Chancellor of a fascist State of the future that has banned all books and religion. He is granted three requests: that only his assassin know the method of his death, that he die at midnight the next day, and that he have a live TV audience. Forty-five minutes before he is to die, Wordsworth invites the Chancellor to his room. But he has more on his mind than a deathbed chat—he's determined to put both their ideologies to the test, and demonstrate just which man really is obsolete...in this world, and in the Twilight Zone."
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The Twilight Zone - To Serve Man
Headlines around the world blare the news. Aliens have finally found us. Weighing in at 350 lbs. each, the Kanamits are an impressive breed. Standing a little over nine feet tall, they dazzle the world with polished rhetoric and winning promises that would make a politician's head spin. With their superior technology, they teach man how to end famine, harness energy and lay down their guns. The title of a Kanamit book left at the UN seems to say it all—translated it reads: "To Serve Man." While decoding experts struggle to decipher the rest of the book, thousands, including head cryptographer Michael Chambers, book passage to the Kanamits' home planet. By the time his assistant translates the book, it's too late...because Michael Chambers and thousands more like him have just bought a one-way ticket into The Twilight Zone!"[1]
Luke 17
26 [a]And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.
27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, and gave in marriage unto the day that Noah went into the Ark: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
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1973 Interview - The Walton's - Earl Hamners Mother - Schyler, VA
This interview is from 1973 on-site at Earl Hamner's Home in Schyler, VA. John Boy, from The Waltons, was based on Earl Hamner growing up in this house. The series lasted 9 years and there were 6 TV Movies - 3 in the 1980's and 3 in the 1990's. The series was based on Earl Hamner's family and according to his mother is 85% accurate [at the time of the interview] and 15% fiction. Enjoy!
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The Last Man On Earth - Vincent Price 1964
The Last Man on Earth is a 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film was produced by Robert L. Lippert and directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and stars Vincent Price and Franca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQIhzNpBLQ
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Casablanca - La Marseillaise
https://rumble.com/v10mmd7-casablanca-1942-humphrey-bogart-ingrid-bergman-and-paul-henreid.html
Academy Award winners Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most enduring romances in movie history--Casablanca. Rick Blaine (Bogart--The African Queen, The Caine Mutiny) owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund (Bergman--Gaslight, Notorious) walks through the front door of Rick's club--Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.
https://youtu.be/0bLFwh83vzQ
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California Dreamin' The Mamas & The Papas
California Dreaming performed by the Mamas and the Papas
🎵 More great classic music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk...
Lyrics:
All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is grey (and the sky is grey)
I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk)
On a winter's day (on a winter's day)
I'd be safe and warm (I'd be safe and warm)
If I was in L.A. (if I was in L.A.)
California dreamin' (California dreamin')
On such a winter's day
Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees (got down on my knees)
And I pretend to pray (I pretend to pray)
You know the preacher like the cold (preacher like the cold)
He knows I'm gonna stay (knows I'm gonna stay)
California dreamin' (California dreamin')
On such a winter's day
All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is grey (and the sky is grey)
I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk)
On a winter's day (on a winter's day)
If I didn't tell her (if I didn't tell her)
I could leave today (I could leave today)
California dreamin' (California dreamin')
On such a winter's day (California dreamin')
On such a winter's day (California dreamin')
On such a winter's day
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(C) 1965 Dunhill Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk
Knock on Wood - Dooley Wilson [Casablanca 1942]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_f8snT93Bc&t=59s
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Where Have All The People Gone? 1974 Movie Of The Week
is a 1974 American made-for-television science fiction drama film starring Peter Graves, Kathleen Quinlan, George O'Hanlon, Jr. and Verna Bloom.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Home release
6 References
7 External links
Plot
On a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains in central California, Steven Anders and his two teenage children, Deborah and David, are exploring a cave when they experience an earthquake. After emerging, they hear from a ranch-hand who was outside that there was a bright solar flash prior to the earthquake. He soon falls ill and dies, whereupon his body turns to a powdery substance. As the family comes down from the mountain to the nearest town, they discover that everyone has turned to the powdery substance inside their clothing, and there are few survivors.
Owing to fear and anxiety, most people they find are focused only on their own survival, but as the family tries to make their way home to Malibu (where the mother had returned earlier from the camping trip), they find two people that need their help, as well as a man who invites them to be neighbors.
They face dangers ranging from wild dogs, who seem to have been driven mad from the solar flare, to a gunman who steals their car. They rescue a woman, Jenny, and later a young boy whose family was killed by two men who stole their car. Apart from the physical journey, they struggle to overcome the emotional trauma of the events.
They find their way home and discover a note left for them by the mother, who has also died and turned into a powdery substance. They are informed that a virus outbreak that began after the solar flare is responsible for most of the deaths, and that some people have a genetic resistance. Despairing, Jenny tries to commit suicide by drowning herself in the ocean, but she is rescued. At the conclusion, they exude a hopeful outlook by embarking on a trek to northern California.
Cast
Peter Graves as Steven Anders
Verna Bloom as Jenny
Kathleen Quinlan as Deborah Anders
George O'Hanlon, Jr. as David Anders
Michael-James Wixted as Michael
Noble Willingham as Jim Clancy
Jay W. MacIntosh as Barbara Anders
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Charlie Chan - Castle In The Desert 1942
Castle in the Desert is a 1942 film featuring the Chinese detective Charlie Chan. It was the eleventh film to feature Sidney Toler as the title character, and the last made by 20th Century Fox. The series continued with Toler, though under much reduced circumstances, at Monogram Pictures.
Plot
Mrs. Manderley, an eccentric descendant of the Borgias lives in a castle in the middle of the Mojave Desert with her husband Paul Manderley, a reclusive scholarly millionaire. Someone is killed after being poisoned. Paul tries to cover up the murder in which Charlie Chan investigates. In addition to Paul Manderley and his wife (who may be insane and not responsible for her actions) other suspects include:
Walter Hartford, Paul's lawyer who wants to maintain his influence over the Manderley estate
Madame Saturnia, a local astrologer who takes great pride in the fact that her predictions about the growing number of murder victims are always right
Watson King, a sculptor who warns Chan to mind his own business and has a connection to the Manderleys
The clues include:
the poison used which was stolen from a laboratory
a forged letter sent to Charlie Chan summoning him to the Manderley Castle
the poisoned cocktail
a medieval crossbow
Aiding and hindering Chan's investigation is his Number Two son Jimmy, who is on leave with the U.S. Army, and decides to get involved to help his father solve the case, much to the senior Chan's annoyance.
The location is loosely based on Scotty's Castle, a Spanish Revival style villa built by a Chicago millionaire as a vacation home in Death Valley.
Cast
Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
Arleen Whelan as Brenda Hartford
Richard Derr as Carl Detheridge
Douglass Dumbrille as Paul Manderley
Henry Daniell as Watson King
Edmund MacDonald as Walter Hartford
Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan
Lenita Lane as Lucrezia "Lucy" Manderley
Ethel Griffies as Lily, Mme. Saturnia
Steven Geray as Dr. Retling
Lucien Littlefield as Professor Gleason
Milton Parsons as Arthur Fletcher, Private Investigator
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Istanbul 1957 Errol Flynn
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOfHcfPpx_k&t=3192s
Istanbul (1957) is one of the great Errol Flynn's rarest films. It was a remake of the Fred MacMurray/Ava Gardner film Singapore (1947). Istanbul co-stars Cornell Borchers and has appearances by Nat King Cole, Werner Klemperer and Leif Erickson. Istanbul was one of Errol Flynn's final films (Errol died just two years after this film was released), it was filmed in Istanbul, Turkey and was also Errol's first film to be produced by a Hollywood studio in years. By far Istanbul is not one of Errol's best films, but yet not his worst. I felt this film was very hard to find and decided to share it with other Errol Flynn fans. Please enjoy the film.
I do not own the copyright to this film, this film is posted for fans by a fan.
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When I Fall In Love, It Will Be Forever - Nat King Cole 1957
From the 1957 Movie Istanbul starring Errol Flynn
CASABLANCA 1942 Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman & Paul Henreid
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate who must choose between his love for a woman or helping her and her husband, a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/
Endued With Power - 1950s Bible Story - Book of Acts Series
Endued With Power 1950s Bible Story - Book of Acts Series
Bro. Sal & Dr. Vitale
http://www.prayertrainexpress.com
https://mewe.com/p/thetinychurchproject
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God
Until God Calls Me Home
Email: tppots@hotmail.com
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Strong's Hebrew: 8605. תְּפִלָּה(tephillah) -- prayer
בִּתְפִלַּ֥תבַּתְּפִלָּ֑הבתפלהבתפלתהַתְּפִלָּ֔ההַתְּפִלָּ֖ההַתְּפִלָּ֥ההתפלהוּ֝תְפִלָּת֗וֹוּ֝תְפִלָּתִ֗יוּֽתְפִלָּתִ֥יוּתְפִלַּ֖תוּתְפִלָּ֑הוּתְפִלָּ֖הוּתְפִלָּת֣וֹותפלהותפלתותפלתוותפלתי...
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