This scene is from The Blue Bird, a very strange 1940 Shirley Temple movie.

It’s perhaps the best, and certainly the briefest, portrayal of a Romeo and Juliet romance on film. The ages are in keeping with Shakespeare’s play.

WWII hero, former stunt double for Rick Dalton, and all-around bad boy Cliff Booth is coming back for more trouble!

Ignite Films is an interesting little video outfit, specializing in meticulously restored independent productions from the past. I have their excellent premiere release, Invaders From Mars.

Ignite’s latest is a film with a title that sounds like it could be a breakfast at Denny’s. The Big Combo, now in the public domain, is a noir title from 1955.

https://www.ignite-films.com/products/the-big-combo

I ordered the regular Blu-ray edition, as my JVC video projector has the 2K resolution formerly known as “full HD.” Did you know that the 3-chip DLP projectors in movie theaters are “only” 4K? That’s right, your 4K TV at home has the same resolution as seen on those gigantic screens.

HBO Max occasionally has some of Eddie Muller’s ‘Noir Alley’ installments from Turner Classic Movies. Here is The Big Combo, in another DogRat simulation of a TCM presentation. My fingers remain crossed that TCM will become available without a cable TV subscription.

SUNDAY! BOSTON AND SEATTLE BATTLE IT OUT! Count on Boston coming out on top.

Update: Well … the Pats could have done better than they did.