Movies for the Day, Friday, November 8, 2019

Today's movies mark the birthday of Bram Stoker, an Oregon statute, and the birthday of Dorothy Day.

Which of today's movies would you watch?

Nosferatu (1922) is a great silent Dracula
movie, based in part on the Dracula novel
by Bram Stoker, born November 8, 1847.
See also Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), a very
good remake.





Nosferatu








A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
(1972) is a very good movie
about a incapacitated child and
mercy killing.  Oregon's groundbreaking
euthanasia legislation is dated
November 8, 1994.




A Day in the Death of Joe Egg










Entertaining Angels:  The Dorothy
Day Story (1996) is a dramatization of
the life of Dorothy Day, who embraced
Catholicism and socialism in the 1900s.
Day was born November 8, 1897.




Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story