Tag: Vintage Cable Box

• Vintage Cable Box: “Rope, 1948”

  “By what right did you dare decide that that boy in there was inferior and therefore could be killed??!! Did you think you were GOD, Brandon!!?? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him??!! Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave!!?? Well I don’t know…

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  August 21, 2017

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  1948, 1984, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Month, David Lawler, Farley Granger, Hitchcock, James Stewart, John Dall, mystery, Rope, thriller, Vintage Cable Box, Warner Bros.

• Vintage Cable Box: “Rear Window, 1954”

  “Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.” Rear Window, 1954 (James Stewart), Paramount Pictures Freshman year of high school, we had a cocky, smarmy English teacher who enjoyed watching us fumble through Shakespeare, and apparently lived to correct our pronunciations of various phrases and outdated language. In the middle of the…

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  August 2, 2017

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  1954, 1984, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Month, David Lawler, Grace Kelly, Hitchcock, James Stewart, Paramount Pictures, Raymond Burr, Rear Window, suspense, Terror, Thelma Ritter, Universal Pictures, Vintage Cable Box, Wendell Corey

• A Year of Vintage Cable Box!

  

  “Our technology forces us to live mythically” Marshall McLuhan Cable television is a beautiful woman (or man, I suppose) who gets into your brain and relaxes you.  She wants you to sit back and unwind.  Just imagine slender fingers rubbing and squeezing against your tense shoulders, then forming a fist to dig into the middle…

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  September 7, 2016

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  1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, A Christmas Story, Alfred Hitchcock, Alyssa Milano, Bob Clark, Brian De Palma, cable television, cable TV, Carrie, David Bowie, David Lawler, David Naughton, Garry Marshall, Gene Wilder, horror movies, Jacqueline Bisset, Midnight Madness, Porky’s, Rear Window, romantic comedy, Rope, Scarface, sex comedy, Swamp Thing, The Deep, The House Of God, The Hunger, The Man With Two Brains, The Osterman Weekend, The Woman in Red, Vertigo, Vintage Cable Box, Wes Craven

• Vintage Cable Box: Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983

  “You wanna see something REALLY scary?” Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983 (Dan Aykroyd), Warner Bros. I popped in the old Warner Brothers clamshell VHS tape of this, because I wanted to watch the movie as I remembered it when I saw it on cable television in 1984.  Of course I had to play it on…

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  August 31, 2016

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  1983, action, Bill Quinn, Billy Mumy, clamshell, Dan Aykroyd, Dick Miller, George Miller, horror, Jerry Goldsmith, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin McCarthy, Rod Serling, Scatman Crothers, science fiction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, VHS, Vic Morrow, Vintage Cable Box, Warner Brothers, William Schallert, William Shatner

• Vintage Cable Box: “Somebody Killed Her Husband, 1978”

  “When I was a kid, my father had one word of advice he gave me, I’ll never forget it.  You know what he said?  ‘Jerome, if ever you are in seriously desperate trouble, remember … that … God, in his infinite wisdom has ordained that I’ll be playing pinochle and you’ll handle the whole thing…

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  April 11, 2016

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  1978, Charade, Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Get Crazy, Jeff Bridges, John Glover, John Wood, Lamont Johnson, murder-mystery, mystery, Neil Sedaka, New York City, Reginald Rose, romance, romantic comedy, Somebody Killed Her Husband, Vintage Cable Box

• Vintage Cable Box: “Jinxed” (1982)

  “Let me say something I’ve never said to a man before.  Help me murder Harold!” “Jinxed” , 1982 (Bette Midler), United Artists Rip Torn is a career gambler. A career gambler is an occupation that only appears in movies and television shows. This is a person who evidently has so much money they can continue…

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  February 1, 2016

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  1982, Bette Midler, comedy, Don Siegel, gambling, Jinxed!, Ken Wahl, Las Vegas, Rip Torn, romance, United Artists, Vilmos Zsigmond, Vintage Cable Box