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The Paper Chase (1973)
A touchstone
I first saw this movie in a theater with my then girlfriend. I had just graduated high school and was heading to college and an engineering degree. This movie scared me. I realized this was not going to be easy. I guess that's why I tired to not get too involved with that girl, or two others that followed. Engineering school was brutal. Profs told us to look around the classroom. They said at least half would be gone in the first two years. I was part of a study group that the Calculus prof encouraged us to form. The prof liked my girlfriend who was part of the study group. She got A's, I got D's. In those days, there was no email, or other communication with profs. You were on your own. If you didn't quite understand an assignment, too bad. The pressure shown in the movie was real. I had a fellow engineering student in my dorm that climbed out the window that was maybe 8 floors above the ground and hung onto the window frame with his fingers and screamed at the top of his lungs to relive pressure. We joked about joining "the 20 club" (GPA below 2.0). This movie rings true to me..
Route 66: Once to Every Man (1961)
Did you see the XP-755 Mako Shark GM concept car?
This was a great episode. The ending was sort of predictable given that we know that Tod will not settle down with Tod.
Did anyone notice the rather exotic car that Prudance Adams drove? This episode aired in 1961. Buz & Tod drive a 1961 Corvette. Prudie drives what looks sort of like a 1968 Corvette which was still seven years in the future. It has a double bubble clear top and huge side pipes. After researching this a bit, it appears that this car was a GM concept car. GM supplied most of the vehicles used in this show. It appears they supplied an XP-755 Mako Shark I GM concept car. I guess they wanted Prudie to have a European looking sports car but of course, they needed to have only GM cars in the show.
Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_Shark_(concept_car)#Overview
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
Why remake?
This is a remake of High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lapino. Not quite as good as the original, although it has obviously talented, and great actors. It makes you wonder why they would remake a classic like High Sierra with minimal changes just 14 years later. One interesting difference between the original and this movie... In High Sierra Willie Best plays a stereotypical comical black man (Algernon) in a servile role at the camp. The remake had a comical Hispanic (Chico) played by Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez. Both are incredibly insulting by current standards. It makes you wonder about the changes in the culture from 1941 to 1955.