I noticed that Miracle was on FETV again today. Crack in the World is on Tubi. It came out in 1965 when Dana Andrews was just coming back to acting after take a few years off to focus on being president of SAG. He was in 8 films that year!

Probably had a lot of Ross Macdonald too. And the Ian Fleming Bond books (I picked up the entire set of them in paperback for like 10¢ apiece). Sci-fi I'm thinking Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein and maybe Clifford D. Simak.

Oh, yeah. That's great. Gives it a very unnerving and, well, alien quality that adds to the dread. Combine that with those great Ray Harryhausen special effects and it's easy to see why it's one of my favorite 50s sci-fi movies.

Oh, yeah. At least you've seen it. And I'm sure the new one is structured so it's not much of a problem picking up on things.

Sinbad, Hercules and Tarzan were staples of my 1960s childhood. 😂

Crack in the World is a good science fiction disaster movie. The special effects are pretty impressive for the time. A Guy Named Joe is a supernatural WWII film where a dead bomber pilot becomes guardian angel to a younger pilot.

That should work out OK then if there's a lull in there before all the stuff that inevitably comes out to take advantage of the Christmas crowd.

Tubi is definitely the best free streamer for movies. A very impressive collection. They also have short commercial breaks, which is nice. If I didn't have anything else, I could get by with the TV antenna and Tubi. 😂

...good science fiction disaster film for its time (better than a lot of the 70s schlock). Excellent special effects and good acting from Dana Andrews, Janette Scott and Kieron Moore. It's always good to see Dana Andrews.

I watched it on FETV last night, so once again we may have been watching at the same time. 😂

Even today I sometimes see advanced special effects and envision how cool they would have been had Harryhausen been doing them in the 50s or 60s. 😂

I always thought Crack in the World was a very... ⬇️

There was a used bookstore in my hometown in the 70s. That's where I gained my affinity for pulp detective novels of the 50s and 60s. Especially John D. McDonald and the Travis McGee series.

That they are! Each in its own way.

Sometime in December there's a Sense and Sensibility 30th anniversary run. I do like a good English costume drama, so I might check that out. But December might be a good month for me to get that Netflix thing to see Nouvelle Vague and a few other things on there.

😂 I was actually thinking how much more value you'd get out of it. It's an extra 25% after whatever the regular discount is. But I have two new free tickets to use. When I saw WFG again the other day it was the first time I'd paid for a movie for a while because I had built up like 5 or 6 tickets.😲⬇️

I caught about 10 minutes of it when I ran across it on some channel the other night. Something about a meter maid rabbit and a fox. Looked interesting, but I'll need to catch the whole thing. 😂

Most of my absolute favorite westerns were from the 50s and into the early 60s. Something changed as we got into the 80s and beyond. Even the best ones just don't quite do it for me. I sometimes say that The Shootist was the last western I fully loved. Maybe westerns died with John Wayne!.😂

Gremlins is always fun. I need to watch the first Zootopia one of these days, but I don't want to see 2 until I have. I've been watching cool old stuff on Tubi today.

It's the main reason I keep one! Most of my book reading I do on a Kindle now or buying old used paperbacks from like the 60s on ThriftBooks. 😂