On this day in movie history - Four Boys and a Gun (1957)

Four Boys and a Gun

directed by William Berke,

written by Leo Townsend and Philip Yordan,

based on the novel by Willard Wiener,

was released in the United States on January 11, 1957.

Music by Marie Montague and Everett Sutherland.

Cast:

Frank Sutton, Tarry Green, James Franciscus, William Hinnant, Otto Hulett, Robert Dryden, J. Pat O'Malley, Diana Herbert, Patricia Sloan, Nancy Devlin, Patricia Bosworth, David Burns, Anne Seymour, Frank Gero, Ned Glass, Karl Swenson, Lisa Osten, Sid Raymond, George McIver, Frank Campanella, Joseph Campanella, Crahan Denton, Frank Marth, Diana Sands.

On this day in movie history - Dog Day (1984)

Dog Day

directed by Yves Boisset,

written by Jean Vautrin, Michel Audiard and Dominique Roulet,

based on the novel by Jean Vautrin,

was released in France on January 11, 1984.

Music by Francis Lai.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, David Bennent, Bernadette Lafont, Grace de Capitani, Tina Louise, Muni, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Juliette Mills, Julien Bukowski, Jean-Roger Milo, Joseph Momo, Henri Guybet, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Myriam Pisacane, Inger Ekbom, Lillemour Jonsson, Jean Cherlian, Mohamed Bekhtaoui, Chrystel, Gora Chand Saha.

On this day in music history - The album River of Stars, by 2002 (2000)

River of Stars

by 2002

was released January 11, 2000.

Track list:

River of Stars; Elysian Fields; Stella Maris; First Daughter of the Moon; Starwalkers; Heaven and Earth; Lovers' Bridge; The Dreaming Tree; Tanabata Moon; Rays of Light.

Jimmy Carter road sign

 Jimmy Carter road sign

January 9, 2025

Liv Ullman, on books:

Books have always been living things to me.

Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little.

When I have been perplexed,

looking for something I could not define to myself,

a certain book has turned up,

approached me as a friend would.

And between its cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

- Liv Ullmann.

Recommended reading – Two O’clock Courage

 

Two O’clock Courage

by Gelett Burgess.
 
Filmed as Two in the Dark (1936), directed by Benjamin Stoloff.
 
ASIN: B005D2SGQU
Published by Surinam Turtle Press.
Published 1934.
Hardcover.
 
Description:
 

This 1934 thriller is the third book under Richard A. Lupoff's Surinam Turtle imprint. A man wakes up in a park and can't remember who he is. But thanks to the help of a couple of intriguing women, he manages to remain free from arrest for a murder he MAY have committed. But he simply must figure out his identity before the cops -- or the murderer -- catch up with him. The story was made into a film called TWO IN THE DARK and the plot has been used in later films and books (notably Evan Hunter's BUDDWING and a British film called HYSTERIA) but no one has done it with the skill and style of Gelett Burgess.

Born on this day – Virginia Valli:

Virginia Valli

Actress

January 10, 1896 – September 24, 1968

Credits:

Night Life in Reno (1931); Guilty? (1930); The Lost Zeppelin (1929); Mister Antonio (1929); The Isle of Lost Ships (1929); Behind Closed Doors (1929); The Street of Illusion (1928); The Escape (1928); Ladies Must Dress (1927); East Side, West Side (1927); Judgment of the Hills (1927); Paid to Love (1927); Evening Clothes (1927); Marriage (1927); Stage Madness (1927); Flames (1926); The Family Upstairs (1926); Watch Your Wife (1926); The Pleasure Garden (1925); The Man Who Found Himself (1925); The Lady Who Lied (1925); Siege (1925); Up the Ladder (1925); The Price of Pleasure (1925); K: The Unknown (1924); In Every Woman's Life (1924); The Signal Tower (1924); The Confidence Man (1924); Wild Oranges (1924); A Lady of Quality (1924); The Shock (1923); The Village Blacksmith (1922); The Storm (1922); The Black Bag (1922); His Back Against the Wall (1922); Tracked to Earth (1922); The Right That Failed (1922); The Idle Rich (1921); The Devil Within (1921); A Trip to Paradise (1921); The Man Who (1921); Love's Penalty (1921); Sentimental Tommy (1921); The Silver Lining (1921); The Plunger (1920); The Common Sin (1920); The Dead Line (1920); The Very Idea (1920); The Midnight Bride (1920); The Black Circle (1919); His Father's Wife (1919); The Lie That Failed (1918); Ruggles of Red Gap (1918); Uneasy Money (1918); The Fibbers (1917); The Fable of the Speedy Sprite (1917); Efficiency Edgar's Courtship (1917); The Long Green Trail (1917); The Golden Idiot (1917); Much Obliged (1917); Vernon, the Bountiful (1917); Filling His Own Shoes (1917); The Quarantined Bridegroom (1917); Satan's Private Door (1917); Skinner's Dress Suit (1917); The Strange Case of Mary Page (1916).