Saturday, August 22, 2020

Movies for the Day, Saturday, August 22, 2020

Today's movies mark a robbery, the birthday of Chuck Brown, and the birthday of Ray Bradbury.

Which of today's movies would you watch?










Dog Day Afternoon (1975) is an
adaptation of a true-life robbery on August
22, 1972, which turned into a media circus.
It is on the National Film Registry.  It stars
Al Pacino, born April 25, 1940.





Dog Day Afternoon










Good to Go (1986) is about a
journalist investigating a murder in
the Washington, D.C. go-go scene in the
1970s era.  The movie highlight is the
music.  Chuck Brown, born August 22,
1936, is known as the godfather of Go-Go.




Good to Go














Fahrenheit 451 (2018) is a TV movie
based on the dystopian novel by Ray
Bradbury, born August 22, 1920, in
which "firemen" burn books, all illegal
and banned.  This science fiction movie won
an Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie.




Fahrenheit 451






























































































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