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Gravity (2013)
Scene change? Kowalski's death.
I watched 'Gravity' again last night after many years. I could have sworn that the scene wherein Kowalski and Stone are separated, I thought that Kowalski, after pleading with Stone to let him go and to not risk her life in attempting to save him, then detaches himself and, drifting away in a slow descent to Earth, HE LIFTS HIS FACE SHIELD and immediately freezes and dies. I have this scene in my mind's eye and recall it perfectly - yet, when watching the film last night, Kowalski detaches from the tether, slowly drifts away, talks to Stone, describes the Sun on the Ganges and disappears into Space. Am I hallucinating? Did a scene get changed? How can I recollect so vividly a scene and performance that isn't even in the film??? Crazy. Does anyone else recall that face shield, decompression death?
Kraft Suspense Theatre: The Easter Breach (1965)
Cold War drama at the height of the Cold War
It must have been tough to obtain authentic East German uniform gear for movie props in 1965. The first thing I noticed is the East Berlin Border Guards are wearing Swiss Army helmets - a knock-off of a very early (1917) U. S. experimental model rejected by the U. S. military. Now days (2021) the market is flooded with ex-Soviet Bloc military surplus including the very distinctive East German Army Helmets we've all seen in the old newsreels and photographs of the guards who jumped the barbed wire themselves. Interesting storyline though. I enjoyed it.
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
I Love Pamela Franklin !!
I have to admit it - I've had a crush on Pamela Franklin since 1964 (A Tiger Walks). I was about ten at the time and I even wrote to disney asking for a photo of her. They sent me an 8x10 glossy of young Pamela -FOR FREE !! It came with nice letter on Disney stationary thanking ME for asking for the photo. It hung in my room for a while until I realized there were real girls out there!
I finally got around to seeing SSFG after all these decades. It came out just as I was getting out of High School almost half a century ago. It rekindled my heart-throb for Pamela. She looked so cute in this film I found myself at age 19 (1973) wondering what it would have been like to have known her. Silly...I know! She was just adorable.
She hasn't acted in years and I understand she and her husband run a book store in Hollywood now. I just find it a interesting human oddity that someone's image and persona -an actress - can get embedded in one's psyche as a child and still be there with the same regard so many years later. I guess that is the magic of cinema.
The movie is not much of a blockbuster and is obviously dated but it was fun to go along with it and watch these young actresses perform so earnestly. Seeing Pamela as a beatiful young woman made it all worth it.
Amazing Stories: The Mission (1985)
Spielberg must have watched 'Twelve O'Clock High' !!
Steven Spielberg and I are about the same age so it seems likely he watched 'Twelve O'Clock High' as a kid like I did. TOCH was a short-lived TV show based on the book and the movie that starred Gregory Peck as General Frank Savage. In the TV series Season 1, Episode 6 there is a very similar story of the Ball Turret gunner being trapped in his turret after FLAK damage with the real possibility of being crushed upon landing due to landing gear damage as well. Savage saves the day, down to two engines with no possibility of a second attempt, he hand cranks the gear down (but maybe not locked!) before going back to the cockpit for the landing. All's well that ends well as the gear hold, the plane taxi's in and the young Sgt stuck in the ball marries his pregnant English girlfriend. The writer of this 'Amazing Story' had a good outline for the script and teleplay of 'The Mission' from a one hour television showing from October 30, 1964 titled 'Pressure Point'.