WKRLEM TV The Grave

Last night I did something I don't usually do. I turned to regular TV instead of a streaming service. I don't normally watch regular channels but the wife was doing something so I was waiting for her to come back. We generally watch our stories together so I didn't want to start a new episode of something we were watching. I turn to ME TV which specializes in old TV shows. What was playing?  The Twilight Zone episode "The Grave."

What is great about watching old TV shows is seeing great old actors in the beginning of their careers. You even can get to see big movie stars slumming in TV dramas that you don't really see today. In this episode you get Lee Marvin a big star. Plus Lee Van Cleef one of the best Western Stars from Spaghetti Westerns. One of the best character actors of all time Strother Martin. An all star cast.

It was very well done and very engrossing. I think the best part of the whole episode was Elen Willard who plays the fey love interest of the murdered gunslinger. She is a grade a nutjob and pretty scary. She is an interesting case. A bit player in a bunch of television shows in the early sixties she quit because "acting was too draining emotionally for her." I find that very interesting.

All in all it was a very interesting episode.

Into the cornfield

"You better listen. You need to take away the guns from these people. Who do they think they are. The NRA are murderers. Macro Rubio and the governor are Murderers. Trump is a murderer.

NOT THE KID WE BULLIED EVERY DAY!

NOT THE COPS AND THE FBI THAT DIDN"T ARREST HIM AFTER MANY WARNINGS!

OFF INTO THE CORNFIELDS WITH ALL OF YOU!"

"The children are our future."

Let's listen to Don't Stop Believin'"

"What is this?"
"They have them in all the diners here in Wisconsin."
"Well what is it?"
"It's a juke box. It only play's Bob Dylan tunes."
"That's kind of weird. Did you ever play it?"
"Sure all the time. But forget about that. Hey lets go back to my place honey. I want to show you my swimming pool."

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Discovered this by not understanding somebody's comment. Happy Toast left a picture to be remarked upon. Incidental to this, Happy Toast is the person who drew the picture of Batman punching Penguin so hard poop flies out. The cartoon copied and fashioned into a birthday card by someone else and presented to a 6-year old inside a London restaurant that caused the boy to laugh so hard he could not stop, then his sister, then his parents, the whole table, the adjoining tables laughing along without even seeing the card. Today H.T. posted this children's book picture.

"Stop struggling Peter" puffed Simon

"the game was your idea in the first place." 

Prudence tied the rope tightly.

Among the responses to the picture, this I did not understand:

 That Owl Creek Bridge

gets you every time...

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[Owl Creek Bridge] Expecting children's books series, expecting children's books illustrations, but no.

It is a French film based on an American story by Ambrose Bierce set in the time of the American Civil War. 

Ambrose Bierce, boy is my literature education wanting. 

This is not my cup of tea but I was mesmerized watching the film. Everything about this 27 minute film is outstanding. 

The movie in French La Rivière du Hibou, filmed in France, won best prize for best short at Cannes and also Academy Award for Live Action Short but I tried not to hold all that against it. It was picked up for $25,000 for a final episode of The Twilight Zone, considerably less than they paid for their own production. 

How did I miss this? 

Large chunks of my life have no television at all. I missed a lot. I will not be surprised if everyone saw this already. I see comments all around people enjoy watching this again after so long. 

Did you ever ride down a river without a raft, just bang along through the rapids? Even small rapids as found in the Platte when you are actually in it and floating along rather slowly, they hurt like heck when you hit rocks, and you do hit them, no avoiding the rocks, ever,with either your feet forward or hands forward, it's bang bang bang bang bang bang bang until you get past the rocks.

But when we see the lovely woman step forward from the house we realize our dark-eyed sensitive and sympathetic fugitive is landowner, slave owner, and both he and the lovely woman and the life they enjoy suddenly become less deserving of sympathy.