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77 Sunset Strip: The Down Under Caper (1962)
Foretelling the Smith/Shaw breakup?
Nothing to add regarding the flimsy story, badly acted action sequences and overall low production quality of this episode. The main plot point was that there were extremely valuable rocks just lying on the ground. If that was the case for Margaret's land, why wouldn't be the case for Reggie's land?
What got me as I watched the show was the total lack of chemistry between Roger Smith and Victoria Shaw. Despite the fact they had been married around 6 years and were the parents of three children. The most realistic scene was at the end when they were separating. Despite the dialog, both actors radiated through their characters that they didn't want to see each other ever again. They did get divorced four years later.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ad Astra Per Aspera (2023)
Continuity error?
In S1E10 A Quality of Mercy, Pike is placed in an alternate timeline seven years in the future, and learns that Una is serving a long prison sentence.
He finds out the timeline diverged when he wrote a letter that prevents the accident that will severely cripple him. He remains in command of the Enterprise instead of James Kirk. The TOS "Balance of Terror" scenario turns out terribly bad and turns the Romulan Cold War, hot.
In this episode Pike gets Una a lawyer who gets her acquited.
Wouldn't it have happened in both timelines? This trial occurs close enough to the timeline split that Pike would have taken the same action to save Una both times.
Wouldn't he have?
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
I was one of the first people to see this movie
I was 11 years old in 1967 and my family came from Texas to New York for my cousin's wedding. It was my first trip to New York. Another uncle was an editor for a prominent magazine and he got a group of the kids into the critic's screening of this movie (probably to get rid of us for the afternoon). The movie wasn't even in theaters yet.
I loved it. It synced up perfectly with what I was experiencing NYC to be. We were staying in my uncle's big fancy apartment on 7th Ave at 55th St and everyday was another collection of remarkable memories. But honestly, this movie stood out in my mind for years. Partly because of the exclusive screening and largely because of how great the acting and story was presented. Not surprising, because most of the cast had performed the play together many dozens of times on Broadway, so they couldn't have been more polished.
I bought the DVD a couple of years ago and IMHO it holds up as well as when I first saw it 50 years ago.
Murder, Inc. (1960)
Falk as Abe Reles
I remember watching this movie on TV with my father in the mid-60s when I was about 10 years old.
When Peter Falk was on the screen, my father said that when he was about my age (in the early 1930s), he used to set pins in a bowling alley in Brooklyn, and the real Abe Reles bowled there nearly every day.
I recall what a mad dog that Falk portrayed and how it chilled me that my dad set pins for him.
I will be on the lookout for this movie again, so I can piece it all back together again.