Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Movies for the Day, Thursday, February 1, 2018

Today's movies mark the birthday of director John Ford, Black History Month, and Robinson Crusoe Day.






Fort Apache (1948) is part one of director
John Ford's masterpiece western trilogy.  It was
followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and
Rio Grande (1950).  The second movie won
an Oscar for Cinematography.  Ford was born
February 1, 1895.




Fort Apache








Blind Faith (1998) is about 1950s
black men in the criminal justice
system- brothers who are a police
captain and a defense attorney, although
the movie begins in the 1980s.





Blind Faith










Lost (September 22, 2004, to May 23,
2010) is a popular television series about
the survivors of a plane crash on an
island.  Today is Robinson Crusoe Day, the hero
of Daniel Defoe's classic novel, in turn
based on the February 1, 1709 rescue of
a real life Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk.
There are 121 episodes.  It won many Emmys and
combined adventure, science fiction, mystery and
supernatural.


Lost


























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