While trying to stay awake, Magnum talks to the painting of a woman on the side of the airplane. He says he's sorry about the rivet in her knee and that it must hurt. The painting is later seen from two other angles, and that rivet is in neither. In one, the rivets have moved - reminding of Magnum's floating war scar. In the other, there are no rivets at all.
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Entertaining but Do NOT Learn from It
26 November 2010
Yeesh. This episode is a nice piece of entertainment, but don't take any umpiring lessons from it. It is set sometime after 1876, so the hard baseball that was used and the cloth one (like those actually used during that era's recent war) which one team tried to use were probably both still around. Also credible is the idea of a fully professional barnstorming team, since the Cincinnati Red Stockings premiered such in 1869. But Paladin gets just about every controversial rule interpretation he has to make wrong. Batters letting themselves get hit with a pitch (not only does he get this wrong by today's rule, I don't think that rule even existed in the 1870s!) ... what to do when runners and fielders collide (or are just about assassinated) under rules that DO seem to have been in place by then ... even the spirit of the game itself. Yeesh.
Pancho who?
13 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Reminding you of the disclaimers spoiler, the punchline to this ep is that the young fella Paladin knows as Doroteo has recently changed his name to, and tells Paladin he will become famous as, Pancho Villa. By appearance and dialogue, he appears to be in his late teens, and it is historically accurate that the boy who would become Pancho did so when he was between 16 and 20. However, since historical and some self-contained fictional references throughout other episodes place Have Gun - Will Travel as happening between 1875 and 1882, the boy who would become Pancho was then still peeing in his pants, or at most toddling rather than walking in them: Doroteo Arango was born in 1878. Oops.
The Visit
(1964)
Category: Best Old Movie I'd Never Seen Before
9 July 2005
My recent acquisitions of Casablanca and Tivo have me watching a lot of old Ingrid Bergman movies, not to mention Bogie, and I just ran across one that should've been a classic yet I'd never heard of. It did get a minor Oscar nomination, but I thought both the story and Ingrid were superb.
The Visit came out in 1964, late for a black and white film and perhaps that helped limit its success. I can see why that might've been done for artistic rather than economic reasons, though. It is a character study of two main characters (Ingrid's and an old flame played by Anthony Quinn, who also co-produced) and many lesser ones, and all of their lights and darks are perhaps magnified by watching in black and white.
And it has my favorite of all plot devices, which it uses very well. I'd tell you what, but that might ruin it.
I do recommend this one - and if you have Fox Movie Channel, it's on again next week (today being 7/9/05). Twice.
The Visit came out in 1964, late for a black and white film and perhaps that helped limit its success. I can see why that might've been done for artistic rather than economic reasons, though. It is a character study of two main characters (Ingrid's and an old flame played by Anthony Quinn, who also co-produced) and many lesser ones, and all of their lights and darks are perhaps magnified by watching in black and white.
And it has my favorite of all plot devices, which it uses very well. I'd tell you what, but that might ruin it.
I do recommend this one - and if you have Fox Movie Channel, it's on again next week (today being 7/9/05). Twice.
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