Who remembers these movies?

[Bugman]

When I was growing up in the 1960's a local TV station in Kansas City devoted most of Saturday night to old movies, ending around 1 am Sunday morning. My brothers and I would make a huge bowl of popcorn, then settle in front on the old black and white Zenith TV watching every movie until the station signed off.

Road to Singapore starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorthy Lamour was released by Paramount Pictures in 1940 and was the first of a series which lasted until 1962. If you would like to share some of your favorite movies from your childhood, please feel free to do so. 🙂

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[giantfan121262]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFJp6SkNJzs

Blazing Saddles. There isn't anything like that these days.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Oh yeah!

In New York, we had three independent stations to choose from (they're still there). Late at night, long past Carson, even the local network affiliates played old movies. There were times I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and find something like The Cross of Lorraine, with Jean-Pierre Aumont and Peter Lorre, or The Stranger, with Orson Welles. The stuff shown was good! Not the obscure D-movie crap they show on Turner. You could turn on one of the independent stations and find, at any time of the day, one of the good Bogarts, like Treasure of the Sierra Madre. All that broadcast time has since been taken up now by a continuous minstrel show.

 

[Bugman]

Oh yeah!

In New York, we had three independent stations to choose from (they're still there). Late at night, long past Carson, even the local network affiliates played old movies. There were times I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and find something like The Cross of Lorraine, with Jean-Pierre Aumont and Peter Lorre, or The Stranger, with Orson Welles. The stuff shown was good! Not the obscure D-movie crap they show on Turner. You could turn on one of the independent stations and find, at any time of the day, one of the good Bogarts, like Treasure of the Sierra Madre. All that broadcast time has since been taken up now by a continuous minstrel show.

Those independent TV stations were great! The station in Kansas City started Saturday with the old Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera cartoons, then some Three Stooges shorts. Afternoons were a mix of Gunsmoke,
Bat Masterson and other reruns of Western series, and maybe throw in a movie. From about 6 pm on, it all was movie time. Not a bad way for a kid to spend a long, cold and snowy Kansas Saturday. 😀

 

[venray]

Hope and Crosby road pics....

Ocean's 11 (the original)

Guys and Dolls

Pocketful of miracles....(Glen Ford and Bette Davis)

Anything with Gregory Peck or John Wayne....

 

[Bugman]

Hope and Crosby road pics....

Ocean's 11 (the original)

Guys and Dolls

Pocketful of miracles....(Glen Ford and Bette Davis)

Anything with Gregory Peck or John Wayne....

Yes indeed. 😀

Animal Crackers, Released by Paramount Pictures in 1930.

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[kwildoctr]

Yes indeed. 😀

Animal Crackers, Released by Paramount Pictures in 1930.

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Man...memories...

So where is Part 2?

R

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I loved Pocketful of Miracles...

 

[milagros317]

Some of the old films that I saw on TV as a child:


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Little Caesar
Stagecoach
The 39 Steps
The Thin Man
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

 

[Bugman]

Man...memories...

So where is Part 2?

R

What, too lazy to find it yourself? 😛

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[Mitchell]

The nightly infomercials have killed TV stations. Now, all you see is sales pitches about different products, all night long.

Knox is right about the NY Stations. Channels 5, 9, and 11, in New York, used to show all kinds of great movies. Anything from Breakfast At Tiffany's, and To Kill A Mockingbird, etc.

Now, the closest thing there is to a movie station at night on basic cable is TBS, and many of their movies are shown often, and aren't that great.

Ah, the olden days of TV.

Mitch

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Here's an obscure weird one about a living television called "The Twonky":



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Drew