Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 28, 2024

Them thar kiddies are armed and dangerous. They're loaded with winsome ways and beguiling smiles. Why, one glance at them can drive a man.... to marriage? For Mr. Donovan (Bill Bixby), that's exactly what happened. Mr. Russell Donovan was just passing through the town of Quake City enjoying a game...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 17, 2024

Every once in a while you come across a gem of an album that you never even knew existed. This one caught my attention because Annette Funicello was on the cover but then I saw the subtitle "and other Walt Disney serials" and my heart skipped a beat. This album...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 14, 2024

When most people think of William Holden and the parts he played, they think of gritty characters such as Sheers (The Bridge on the River Kwai) and Pike Bishop (The Wild Bunch), or military men like Major Ferris (The 7th Dawn) and Lt. Col. Black (The Proud and the Profane),...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 10, 2024

Arabella Flagg (Suzanne Pleshette) performs as The Boston Belle in a San Francisco saloon in Walt Disney's The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967). From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. Some of these may have been sold in th   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 3, 2024

Look at this distinguished looking gentleman. He seems to be devoting his concentration to his task at hand but what that task is, we won't say. We will just let you ponder this screenshot and try to remember what film it came from. As always, if you are not familiar...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 27, 2024

This month, for our Streaming Picks series, we are focusing the spotlight on the Roku app since they have a nice mixture of television series and films available this July/August. In addition to some rarer British series well worth checking out (such as the intriguing The Gentle Touch with the...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 17, 2024

In Morgantown, Pennsylvania, in 1868, a giant voice was heard booming from the mountain ridge known as The Great Eyrie. It was quoting from the Holy Book. John Strock (Charles Bronson), an agent for the United States Department of the Interior, decides to investigate this phenomenon and asks invento   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 16, 2024

This month's British Pathé newsreel features color footage from the 1962 Royal Film Performance which had Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, and Lord Snowdon in attendance....not to mention 16 big-name stars who were presented to the queen prior to the showing. These included Yul Brynner, Cliff Ric   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 13, 2024

There was a plethora of great piano music albums released in the 1960s. Most of them were from the "big names" like Ferrante and Teicher, Horst Jankowski, Liberace or Frankie Carle... but a name that deserves to rank among those famous ivory-ticklers is Lee Evans. Evans name may not be...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 7, 2024

William Hopper is giving Craig Stevens a hearty hello handshake but the Air Force-man only has eyes for Alix Talton....as does the men behind him. Of course, later all of them are more concerned about the giant mantis than romancing women from Washington. From the Archives is our latest series...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 29, 2024

Tommy Ivo's name often comes up when one mentions child actors of the 1940s and 1950s, but did you know that his name is more recognized in racing circles than at film clubs? Ivo became popular as a drag strip racer in the 1960s-1990s where he was known as "TV...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 27, 2024

On June 25th, 2024, MeTV debuted a new channel devoted strictly to cartoons: MeTV Toons. This was obviously in response to viewers requesting more cartoons than what was offered through MeTV's regular morning "toons" lineup on Toon in with Me. What a great selection of cartoons this new channel has   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 21, 2024

Hours before embarking on an assignment, magazine editor Linda Gilman (Bette Davis) has been thrust with a new reporter who happens to be her old lover, foreign correspondent Carey Jackson (Robert Montgomery). The two bickering sweethearts are heading to Indiana with a staff of workers to cover the   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 13, 2024

Whether you like AI (artificial intelligence) or not, it is the wave of the future and is here to stay. Right now, it is in its burgeoning infancy but even as a mere tot, it impresses me every day. For the past year, I've been enjoying playing with Midjourney AI,...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 12, 2024

We have a doozy of a screenshot to share this month. It is obviously a scene of a lab but what kind of lab we will let you figure out... once you get that clue then you might be able to guess what movie this scene is from. ;-)As always,...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 8, 2024

Three happy people... Julie Adams is looking lovely, Charles Drake is handsome as usual, and the little smiling boy is Tommy Ivo pictured here in this still from the little-known western The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952). From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 31, 2024

During World War II, Londoners not only had to contend with German bombers destroying the streets and homes of their fair city but with a new kind of ballistic missile as well. It was known as the "V2" and was developed by Wernher von Braun, whom the United States government...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 29, 2024

For this month's British Pathé post, we have a very short film clip of Mrs. Rosemary Upton and her budgerigar garden in Margaretting, Essex. Mrs. Upton bred budgerigars and was courageous enough to add a flap to her aviary to let the little fellows get some free-fly time. Seeing her...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 25, 2024

The sign reads "QUIET" and quiet means quiet! This librarian certainly wouldn't tolerate any hooliganism in the library during her shift.As always, if you need to know the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, click here!   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 18, 2024

A little-known fact of World War II history is that the German forces occupied the Channel Islands for five long years. We all know that stalwart English citizens such as Professor Emelius Brown and Eglantine Price helped to stave off coastal attacks from German troops, but how many of us...   read more