Movies for the Day, Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Today's movies mark the Indy 500, Older Americans Month, and the Feast Day of St. Joan of Arc.










The Big Wheel (1949) is about race car
driving.  The Indy 500 was first run
May 30, 1911.





The Big Wheel










The Whales of August (1987) is about
two elderly woman sharing a
cottage in Maine.  May is Older
Americans Month.





The Whales of August













Joan of Arc (1999) is a three-episode
television miniseries about the French
heroine, martyr, and saint of the
1400s.  Her Feast Day is May 30.  This
series won an Emmy for Supporting
Actor, to Peter O'Toole, born August
2, 1932.  Joan of Arc lived from
January 6, 1412, to May 30, 1431.



Joan of Arc