I Walked With a Zombie
What could be more exciting than the opening titles of old films - as you look at this collection of page after page of movie title stills, you expect to hear the tooting of a fanfare or banging of a gong as the matinee begins. I haven't seen some of these films but Le Salaire de la Peur or The Wages of Fear is a winner: sweaty truckers on an urgent mission drive a load of nitroglycerine veeeery carefully...
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It makes me a little sad that most movies don't have these anymore.
Posted by: Lynn | August 20, 2009 4:51 PM
Glorious. Or how about Cause for Alarm! or The Postman Always Rings Twice?
Lynn, no need to be sad - we can still see these titles on the films of the time - and indeed we have more opportunities to see them now than ever before. Back then, if you missed it in the cinema, you had to wait for a TV showing maybe once every few years.
Posted by: John Self | August 21, 2009 10:11 AM