Latest Articles: Retro 50s 60s
In Harm's Way
Post Date: 2022-04-09 20:32:20 by BTP Holdings
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Producer-director Otto Preminger's epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind the scenes stories.
Lee Harvey Oswald's Final Phone Call Before His Assassination
Post Date: 2022-02-24 16:07:24 by BTP Holdings
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Just hours before his death, Lee Harvey Oswald tried to call Raleigh, North Carolina from the Dallas jail on the evening of Nov. 23, 1963. For years, this significant information was ignored by assassination investigators and concealed from the public. Surprise guest speaker and JFK Assassination expert the late Jim Marrs joins Dr. Proctor on stage at 58:00. In the early 1980s, independent researcher Dr. Grover Proctor broke new ground on Oswald’s attempted call. Because of Dr. Proctor’s work, Oswald's attempt to reach former U.S. Intelligence officer John Hurt has become known as “The Raleigh Call.”
Mysterious Death of Reporter Dorothy Kilgallen & the JFK Assassination
Post Date: 2022-02-03 20:26:12 by BTP Holdings
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Dinosaurs---by William S. Burroughs
Post Date: 2022-01-15 22:08:39 by Dakmar
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Poster Comment:We must grow larger! Allegory anyone?
Blast from the Past [A cute movie]
Post Date: 2022-01-08 15:32:58 by Esso
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After 35 years in a bomb shelter, Adam Webber is finally going outside to play. When a man raised in a 1950s era bomb shelter emerges into the outside world for the first time, he finds a nice non mutant girl with whom to repopulate the earth and meets a savvy, cynical modern woman, sparks fly, opposites attract, and the result is a wondrous chain reaction in this romantic comedy for the nuclear age—Blast from the Past. Adam's (Brendan Fraser) hapless search in the brave new world of homeless people, adult bookstores and all-night supermarkets leads him directly into Eve (Alicia Silverstone). She's suspicious, smart about survival and uncertain of the possibilities of love. Her ...
The Great Escape
Post Date: 2021-12-24 20:09:58 by BTP Holdings
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Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist type prisoners of war are all put in an 'escape proof' camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use boats and trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe. Poster Comment:Steve Mcqueen got top billing.
The Lieutenant ('The War Called Peace') Gene Roddenberry's masterpiece. Starring Gary Lockwood
Post Date: 2021-11-06 15:14:23 by BTP Holdings
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Lt. Bill Rice (Lockwood) goes undercover at a weapons facility, posing as a civilian contractor, and finds trouble. Guest starring is Lloyd Bochner ('Dynasty'), Denver Pyle ('Dukes of Hazzard'), and Donna Anderson ('Inherit the Wind').
The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
Post Date: 2021-10-25 08:02:22 by BTP Holdings
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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented a panel discussion featuring Former Secret Service agents Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill and author Lisa McCubbin talking with The Sixth Floor Museum's Curator Gary Mack about what happened on November 22, 1963 and in the months leading up to and following President Kennedy's assassination. This presentation took place on November 20, 2010 as part of a tour to promote their book, "The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence" (2010). To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (emuseum.jfk.org). Or ...
Halloween With The Addams Family (Full Episode) | MGM
Post Date: 2021-10-17 18:16:39 by BTP Holdings
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A pair of bank robbers are welcomed as Halloween trick-or-treaters by Morticia and Gomez. The creepy atmosphere of the house, Morticia's smoldering holiday punch, and Lurch's ominous presence impel the crooks to abandon their plans to add Addams money and jewelry to their bank loot.
COMBAT! s.2 ep.5: "The Long Way Home" - Pt 2 (1963)
Post Date: 2021-10-09 23:16:22 by BTP Holdings
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The second of a two-part episode written by Edward J. Lakso and directed by Ted Post, with Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, Richard Basehart, Jack Hogan, Pierre Jalbert, Tom Lowell, Dick Peabody, Conlan Carter, Simon Oakland, Woodrow Parfrey, Sasha Harden, Glenn Cannon, Arthur Batanides, James Sikking, Michael McDonald. Original air date: 15 October 1963.
COMBAT! s.2 ep.4: "The Long Way Home" - Pt 1 (1963)
Post Date: 2021-10-09 23:11:25 by BTP Holdings
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The first of a two-part episode written by Edward J. Lakso and directed by Ted Post, with Vic Morrow, Richard Basehart, Jack Hogan, Pierre Jalbert, Tom Lowell, Dick Peabody, Conlan Carter, Simon Oakland, Woodrow Parfrey, Sasha Harden, Glenn Cannon, Arthur Batanides, James Sikking, Michael McDonald. Original air date: 8 October 1963. Poster Comment:Guest star Richard Basehart.
The Dirty Dozen
Post Date: 2021-10-06 21:09:57 by BTP Holdings
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During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major (Lee Marvin) is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Post Date: 2021-10-04 18:19:40 by BTP Holdings
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Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the "buddy film" with this smash hit set in the Old West. The Sundance Kid (Redford) is the frontier's fastest gun. His sidekick, Butch Cassidy (Newman), is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside... Or remember that Sundance can't swim before they escape a posse by leaping off a cliff into rushing rapids... Times are changing in the west and life is getting tougher. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, don new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend (Katharine Ross), head down to Bolivia. Never mind that they ...
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
Post Date: 2021-09-26 17:08:52 by BTP Holdings
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Presenting intriguing research and insight into the questions that have haunted the nation since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Philip Shenon, author of the 2013 bestseller "A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination," asserts in his in-depth account of the Warren Commission that the panel of seven august men did not discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963. Shenon will speak about his research and his unprecedented access to surviving Commission staff members and other key players that contributed to his quest to uncover ...
Col. L. Fletcher Prouty on Ed Lansdale being in Dealey Plaza on Nov 22 1963
Post Date: 2021-09-26 13:14:42 by BTP Holdings
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Col. Fletcher Prouty discusses photos of Dealey Plaza www.prouty.org
The Gruelling Experience Of US Tank Crews In Vietnam | Greatest Tank Battles | Timeline
Post Date: 2021-09-26 10:55:58 by BTP Holdings
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During the Vietnam War, US tankers had to undergo their baptism of fire, learning how to fight against a guerrilla army in hostile and unfamiliar terrain. Poster Comment:I knew a guy that was a Marine at Khe Sahn. He told me a tank was leaving the base. A VC jumped up from behind a pile of rocks. He was wearing a satchel charge. He jumped on the tank and pulled the det cord. The tank was worth a half million and the VC was worth ten cents. :-/
The Battle Of Britain (1969)
Post Date: 2021-09-25 18:29:00 by BTP Holdings
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A stellar cast, including Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier and Christopher Plummer highlights this epic telling of the greatest air battle in history, when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defeated the German Luftwaffe, saving England from invasion.
Run Silent; Run Deep
Post Date: 2021-09-25 17:19:39 by BTP Holdings
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In this powerful; classic military drama; Rich Richardson (Clark Gable; "The Misfits") is a hard-driving; dedicated submarine officer with a single-minded purpose - to seek out and smash the Japanese destroyer he believes sunk his former ship. Given a new command; Richardson drills his men and first officer Jim Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster; "Elmer Gantry") to point of mutiny as he relentlessly trains them for the battle ahead. At last; word comes of the destroyer's position; and disobeying orders; Richardson finally confronts his foe; unaware that and even greater enemy lurks nearby - one who's been targeting him for a watery grave. Directed by Robert Wise; the ...
The Paras Last Drop - Gamil Airfield 1956
Post Date: 2021-09-19 12:02:01 by BTP Holdings
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The last time the Parachute Regiment dropped into combat was during the 1956 Suez Crisis when 3 PARA landed on El Gamil Airfield outside Port Said, Egypt.
True Grit (1969)
Post Date: 2021-09-02 20:13:00 by BTP Holdings
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In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced but enthusiastic Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell) joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary Western which features performances by Robert Duvall and Strother Martin. Poster Comment:An all ...
The Saint: Season 1 Episode 1 - The Talented Husband (Full Episode)
Post Date: 2021-08-22 18:41:01 by BTP Holdings
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COMBAT! s.2 ep.5: "The Long Way Home" - Pt 2 (1963)
Post Date: 2021-08-07 16:28:25 by BTP Holdings
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The second of a two-part episode written by Edward J. Lakso and directed by Ted Post, with Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, Richard Basehart, Jack Hogan, Pierre Jalbert, Tom Lowell, Dick Peabody, Conlan Carter, Simon Oakland, Woodrow Parfrey, Sasha Harden, Glenn Cannon, Arthur Batanides, James Sikking, Michael McDonald. Original air date: 15 October 1963.
COMBAT! s.2 ep.4: "The Long Way Home" - Pt 1 (1963)
Post Date: 2021-08-07 16:24:41 by BTP Holdings
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The first of a two-part episode written by Edward J. Lakso and directed by Ted Post, with Vic Morrow, Richard Basehart, Jack Hogan, Pierre Jalbert, Tom Lowell, Dick Peabody, Conlan Carter, Simon Oakland, Woodrow Parfrey, Sasha Harden, Glenn Cannon, Arthur Batanides, James Sikking, Michael McDonald. Original air date: 8 October 1963.
Hirohata Merc: Custom Legend - Full Documentary on Classic Cars
Post Date: 2021-08-05 21:50:15 by X-15
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The 1951 Mercury Sports Coupe built by Barris Kustoms aka “The Hirohata Merc” is the embodiment of the custom car craze that became popular in post-WWII America! This chopped Merc helped set the trend for many custom cars to follow and made an indelible mark on America’s automotive history! Take a look as we dive into the world of custom cars and how this one chopped Merc made history in this single-part release of our docu- series "Hirohata Merc: Custom Legend"!
The Blob (1958) - Steve McQueen and Aneta Corsaut
Post Date: 2021-07-22 07:40:55 by Esso
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Poster Comment:A cute old movie. Probably won't be around long. Steve McQueen's 17th movie/TV appearance. The last time he was billed as Stephen McQueen. His last movie was "The Hunter" (1980). Born: March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana, USA Died: November 7, 1980 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico (heart attack) Birth Name: Terrence Stephen McQueen
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