Sunday, November 12, 2017

Movies for the Day, Monday, November 13, 2017

Today's movies mark the birthday of author Robert Louis Stevenson, the birthday of a rifle inventor, and a Mars anniversary.




Treasure Island (1934) is about pirates, buried
treasure, an island, and Long John Silver.  It
is based on the classic by Robert Louis
Stevenson, born November 13, 1850.






Treasure Island










Carbine Williams (1952) is about
the inventor of the carbine rifle so
useful in World War II.  David Marshall
Williams was born November 13, 1900.




Carbine Williams











Capricorn One (1978) is about faking
the first manned mission to Mars.  On
this date, November 13, in 1971, Mariner
9 became the first spacecraft to orbit
another planet- namely, Mars.




Capricorn One





























































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