Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Movies for the Day, Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Today's movies mark Barbershop Quartet Day, the launch of Apollo 13, and Cancer Control Month.







Wait 'Til the Sun Shines Nellie (1952)
is about the hopes and disappointments of
a small town barber in the early 1900s.
Today is Barbershop Quartet Day (from 1938).








Wait 'Til the Sun Shines Nellie








Marooned (1969) is about three
astronauts stranded in space.  It won an
Oscar for Special Visual Effects.  It
presaged the ill-fated Apollo
13, launched April 11, 1970, which had
to abort its planned lunar landing.




Marooned












In for Treatment (1979) is a Dutch
movie about a middle aged man in for treatment
for cancer at a hospital (aka Opname).  April
is Cancer Control Month.





In for Treatment





















































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