Monday, December 16, 2019

Movies for the Day, Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Today's movies mark the birthdays of Philip K. Dick and Beethoven and a strike anniversary.

Which of today's movies would you watch?









Blade Runner (1982) is an action science
fiction thriller about androids based on Philip
K. Dick's story, Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?  Dick was born December 16, 1928.  This
movie has a fervent following and is on the National
Film Registry.





Blade Runner









The Magnificent Rebel (1962) aired
as part of TV's The Magical World of
Walt Disney (season 9).  It is a
dramatization of the life of composer
Ludwig van Beethoven, born December
16, 1770.




The Magnificent Rebel












Strikebound (1984) is about
a 1930s coal miners strike in
Australia (many members of Communist
Party).  It is based on an actual event of
December 16, 1929.



Strikebound








































































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