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Post by ck100 on Jul 28, 2020 7:15:20 GMT
50 to go!  
What are some for you?
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jul 28, 2020 11:53:21 GMT
On a related note, Superman was filming in New York on the night of the blackout in 1977.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 28, 2020 14:11:23 GMT
On a related note, Superman was filming in New York on the night of the blackout in 1977. A practical joke by the Great Attractor. He thought it was funny as hell. |
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jul 28, 2020 17:55:34 GMT
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jul 28, 2020 18:01:58 GMT
Authorization? How about the United States fucking government!?   |
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Post by ck100 on Jul 28, 2020 18:51:48 GMT
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jul 28, 2020 18:53:13 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 28, 2020 19:01:44 GMT
Mirage (1965, directed by Edward Dmytryk). The movie opens in an office building during a blackout. A man (Gregory Peck) doesn’t know where he is or who he is. When the lights come back on, he finds himself pursued by killers.   |
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 28, 2020 19:10:28 GMT
Where Were You When The Lights Went Out? (1968, directed by Hy Averback). Weak, mildly annoying sex comedy based on the Great Northern Blackout of 1965 when NYC went dark and the statistics that showed an uptick in the birth rate 9 months later. It was Doris Day’s next to last movie. (Doris Day died just a little over a year ago at age 97.)   |
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Post by ck100 on Jul 28, 2020 19:20:07 GMT
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 29, 2020 15:30:59 GMT
A very brief power outage in The Tingler--a weird little creature which strangles people is crawling around inside a movie theater; Vincent Price thinks the best way to catch it is to turn off all the lights in the theater, leaving the audience in total darkness. Totally illogical, but the point is to get everyone (onscreen and in the real audience) to scream at the top of their lungs. To add to the fun, during this film's original theatrical release, some theater seats were electrified to creep people out even further. A William Castle film, of course.
A bit of trivia: On the night of the massive power outage in NYC in July of 1977, the local WCBS station in New York had scheduled, for its nightly "Late Late Show" movie, an airing of the 1954 Dane Clark film Blackout. The movie didn't run because the station was knocked out by the citywide blackout.
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