Monday, October 6, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Breaking Point (1950)


The Breaking Point


directed by Michael Curtiz,

written by Ranald MacDougall,

based on the novel To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1950.

Music by Max Steiner.


Cast:
Ryan, Ralph Dumke, Guy Thomajan, William Campbell, Sherry Jackson, Donna Jo Boyce, Victor Sen Yung.

On this day in movie history – Pillow Talk (movie & novel) (1959)


Pillow Talk


directed by Michael Gordon,

written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1959.

Music by Frank De Vol.


Cast:
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Karen Norris, Julia Meade, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patrick, Mary McCarty, Alex Gerry, Hayden Rorke, Valerie Allen, Jacqueline Beer, Arlen Stuart.

Pillow Talk

by Marvin H. Albert.

Published by Gold Medal.

Published 1959.

ASIN: B000ARHC90

Vintage paperback

Filmed as Pillow Talk (1959), directed by Michael Gordon.

Back cover description:

Good connections.

Doris Day plays the interior decorator who has designs on men.

Rock Hudson and Tony Randall are the men who fall for her, hook, line and sinker.


On this day in movie history - Spartacus (1960)


Spartacus


directed by Stanley Kubrick,

written by Dalton Trumbo, and based on the novel by Howard Fast,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1960.

Music by Alex North.


Cast:
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, John Dall, Nina Foch, John Ireland, Herbert Lom, Charles McGraw, Joanna Barnes, Harold J. Stone, Woody Strode, Peter Brocco, Paul Lambert, Robert J. Wilke, Nicholas Dennis, John Hoyt, Frederic Worlock, Gil Perkins, Cliff Lyons.

On this day in movie history - Midnight Express (1978)


Midnight Express


directed by Alan Parker,

written by Oliver Stone, and based on the book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1978.

Music by Giorgio Moroder.


Cast:
Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert Weisser, John Hurt, Kevork Malikyan, Yashaw Adem, Mike Kellin, Franco Diogene, Michael Ensign, Gigi Ballista, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Giannatos.

On this day in movie history - The Proposition (2005)


The Proposition


directed by John Hillcoat,

written by Nick Cave,

was released in Australia on October 6, 2005.

Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Cast:
Richard Wilson, Noah Taylor, Jeremy Madrona, Jae Mamuyac, Guy Pearce, Mick Roughan, Shane Watt, Ray Winstone, Robert Morgan, David Gulpilil, Bryan Probets, Oliver Ackland, Danny Huston, David Vallon, Daniel Parker, Carl Rush, Gary Waddell, Iain Gardiner, Emily Watson, Bogdan Koca, Sue Dwyer, Lance Medlin, John Hurt, David Wenham, Rodney Boschman, Boris Brkic, Ned Rose, Leah Purcell, Tom Budge, Tommy Lewis, Ralph Cotterill, Max Age, Jerry Solomon.

On this day in movie history - The Departed (2006)

The Departed


directed by Martin Scorsese,

written by William Monahan,

was released in the United States on October 6, 2006.

Inspired by the movie Infernal Affairs (2002), directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak.

Music by Howard Shore.


Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Corrigan, James Badge Dale, David O'Hara, Mark Rolston, Robert Wahlberg, Kristen Dalton, Amanda Lynch, Shay Duffin.