Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Movies for the Day, Thursday, January 16, 2020

Today's movies mark January 16, Prohibition, and the birthday of Dian Fossey.

Which of today's movies would you watch?






The Night of January 16th (1941) is a
business world whodunit based on a
Broadway play.







The Night of January 16th










Thunder Road (1958) is about
moonshiners in the 1950s.  Prohibition
became effective January 16, 1920 (but was
repealed in the early 1930s).  Star
Robert Mitchum was born August 6,
1917.





Thunder Road










Gorilla (1981) is a National Geographic
Special which won an Emmy for
Production Mixing.  Naturalist Dian
Fossey, born January 16, 1932, worked
with gorillas in the field while Jane Goodall
similarly worked with chimps in the field.  Goodall was
born April 3, 1934.  See also Gorillas in the Mist
(1988).


Gorilla
































































































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