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Night Passage

Posted by kennethmartinez1974 on 23rd March 2010

Night Passage
Night Passage (1957)

IMDB rating: 6.70

Plot: The workers on the railroad haven’t been paid in months — that’s because Whitey and his gang, including fast-shooting, dangerous, but likeable Utica Kid, keep holding up the train for its payroll. Grant McLaine, a former railroad employee who was fired in disgrace, is recruited to take the payroll through under cover. A young boy and a shoebox figure into the plot when Whitey’s gang tries to hold up the train and Grant and the Kid meet again to settle an old score.

Directors: Neilson James

Actors: Stewart James,Murphy Audie,Duryea Dan,De Wilde Brandon,Flippen Jay C.,Anderson Herbert,Wilke Robert J.,Beaumont Hugh,Elam Jack,Cook Tommy,Fix Paul,Flavin James,Western,

What's the name of this book?
So in January I took my SATs, and at one part of the test I found an excerpt from a book that I thought I might like to read. It looks long, but hear me out.

Unfortunately, they don’t site their sources very well and don’t actually NAME the book, but only give a vague background of it, leaving a guessing game.

So, the book was either based in or made in the 1950s, and in this excerpt it features a father named Earl and his son Virgil. They were driving on a long vacation and the father had said he’d like to pick up a hitchhiker to give some company to the ride. So he pulls up close to each hitchhiker, some of which are soldiers, and pulls away at the last second, despite Virgil’s protests of "you can’t do that" and "that’s not right"

Eventually, he gets annoyed to a point where he yells at Earl for being so cruel, and that he shouldn’t do it. And Earl says "Well, we don’t usually get time together like this, so I guess I just wanted it to be you and me", and Virgil is speechless and touched.

Eventually they decide to pull up in a "nameless hotel" and spend the night, where he describes the furniture as "soft as eclairs". and they chat in bed just about things that Virgil had done. Near the end of the passage, Virgil says "I don’t remember what I said that night, but I remember that for the first time, he seemed truely interested in what I had to say"

Yes, sounds good. So if anyone can help, best answer and much appreciated :)
"Where the red dog feasts" does not bring up any results in Google. In fact, when I put quotes around it, it brings me back to this question.

Please give some kind of link to it, or a correct name.
"Where the red dog feasts" does not bring up any results in Google. In fact, when I put quotes around it, it brings me back to this question.

Please give some kind of link to it, or a correct name.


"where the red dog feasts"
Ken | Feb 03, 2010

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Kiss Me Deadly - DivX Version (Normal Quality), iPod/iPhone Version

Posted by kennethmartinez1974 on 16th November 2009

Kiss Me DeadlyKiss Me Deadly (1955)

IMDB rating: 7.70

Plot: Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer’s car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike’s policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story—meaning big money for him—because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed.

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Directors: Aldrich Robert

Actors: Meeker Ralph,Dekker Albert,Stewart Paul,Hernandez Juano,Addy Wesley,Dennis Nick,Lambert Jack,Elam Jack,Zinneman Jerry,Helton Percy,Thriller,Film-Noir,Crime,

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Movie questions (film noir, westerns, and more)?
1. In 1952, in Burstyn v. Wilson, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for a state to ban a film it deemed sacrilegious. The decision had what significance?
A) It led to the creation of the film ratings system.
B) It led to a series of deliberately sacrilegious films.
C) It led to biblical epics like "The Robe" and "The Ten Commandments."
D) It recognized that motion pictures merited First Amendment protection.

2. Although the film noir is among the most urban of genres, this classic begins and ends in rural setting to which the main character has retreated to escape his former self.
A) Out of the Past
B) In a Lonely Place
C) Shadow of a Doubt
D) Kiss Me Deadly

3. In the late 1960s, a number of westerns lamented the loss of the frontier. In this example, set in the early 20th century, a character signs on to support Mexican revolutionaries with the line "It ain’t like it used to be, but it’ll do."
A) Vera Cruz
B) Ride the High Country
C) The Wild Bunch
D) Once Upon a Time in the West

4. In this cold war era film "noir", Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer gets in over his head and ends up being responsible for a nuclear disaster.
A) Night and the City
B) White Heat
C) Touch of Evil
D) Kiss Me Deadly


1. In 1952, in Burstyn v. Wilson, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for a state to ban a film it deemed sacrilegious. The decision had what significance?
D) It recognized that motion pictures merited First Amendment protection.
From Wikipedia:
The decision defined film as an artistic medium protected by the Constitution’s guarantee of free speech. In so doing, the Court overturned its previous decision in Mutual Film Corporation vs. Industrial Commission of Ohio (1915), which found that movies were not an art form worthy of First Amendment protection but merely a business.

2. Although the film noir is among the most urban of genres, this classic begins and ends in rural setting to which the main character has retreated to escape his former self.
A) Out of the Past

3. In the late 1960s, a number of westerns lamented the loss of the frontier. In this example, set in the early 20th century, a character signs on to support Mexican revolutionaries with the line "It ain’t like it used to be, but it’ll do."
A) Vera Cruz (I think…)

4. In this cold war era film "noir", Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer gets in over his head and ends up being responsible for a nuclear disaster.
D) Kiss Me Deadly

MystMoonstruck | Oct 29, 2009

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