AT THE MOVIES WITH CANTON BELANGER!

Great news! Retrokimmer.com has a retro movie contributor Canton Belanger... Met Canton on Facebook and he does a lot of film screenings and has invited me a few. Last night the idea to enlist Canton popped in my head and he agreed to help out... So tonight we have 3 of Canton's film picks from the 1960s.... Love his insight and eye for detail.... So grab some popcorn and take a look at Canton's story.... xoRK

PLANET OF THE APES 1968

In the year 1966, a movie idea was pitched at 20th century fox. it has based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, but it went thru many changes and had it's budget cut down until much of it was different from the novel. a early makeup screen test was done with Charlton Heston,Edward G. Robinson and in a early role as a chimp...James Brolin. the innovative makeup earned John Chambers a Oscar. The screenplay was written by Rod Serling and Michael Wilson, Wilson was one of the blacklisted writers during the Hollywood communist hunt of the 1950s. four sequels followed it, each one not as good. Full Cast

DR. STRANGELOVE 1964

A brilliant satire of the madness of nuclear annihilation, co-written by director Stanley Kubrick. a tour de force performance by Peter Sellers, he plays three roles, all of them very memorable. Sterling Hayden delivers one of the best written scenes in cinema as general Jack D. Ripper. with George C. Scott delightfully nutty as General Buck Turgidson and his fight with the soviet ambassador in the war room. Also the big as texas turn of Slim Pickens as a B-52 pilot riding a nuclear payload to atomic oblivion. and Keenan Wynn, the son of comic radio legend Ed wynn, as colonel bat guano. plus James Earl Jones in a early role. Full Cast

IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD! 1963

A comedic extravaganza of colossal proportions. nearly every comic or funny man was in it. From the silent and early sound era to the 1950s. Stanley Kramer manages to juggle many wild and outlandish chase scenes. beside the craziness of a bunch of folks after $ 350,000 in stolen cash, are the many fights an fistacuffs between Milton Berle and Terry Thomas, Jonathan Winters and Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan, Ethel Merman, Sid Caesar, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Peter Falk, Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hackett, Edie Adams and many others. all proving it is a very mad world. The screenplay was written by a husband and wife team and won the Oscar for best sound editing. Full Cast