1584

Haha. I should have written 150 years in the explanation above (now edited).

1585

Oh. Well then maybe it’s just that I saw it ages ago and didn’t think of it :)

1586

Long shot, but…

Jurassic Park 3?

1587

Night at the museum?

1588

Citizen Kane!

1589

Correct!

  1. Loud bird. One scene begins with a screeching cockatoo. TIL that Orson Welles said it had no purpose other than to “wake up” the audience late in the movie.
    https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/65960/whats-with-the-cockatoo-jump-scare-in-citizen-kane
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHI5BYmWDtU&feature=youtu.be&t=362
  2. Pterodactyls: Side effect of using recycled background footage from King Kong
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QyRksgacik
  3. Patter song. “There is a man… a certain man… and for the poor you can be sure that he’ll do all he can!”
  4. Unwanted severance: Susan: “You did send him a check for $25,000, didn’t you?” Kane (emptying an envelope containing the shredded remains of the check): “Yes, I sent him a check for $25,000.”
  5. Chilly breakfast: Kane’s marriage to his first wife deteriorates over the course of the much-celebrated “breakfast table montage.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMkPIW22bq4
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It was kind of an unheralded indie, completely underrated by critics and film historians and The White Stripes, but it’s pretty good!

I never knew that King Kong was where the pterodactyls came from. Good trivia.

Here’s the next movie. As far as grandpa movies go, it’s a little more obscure than Citizen Kane.

  1. The setting: interwar, in ter mountains
  2. Might not be able to tell, but a famous redhead is in this one.
  3. You might recognize Uncle Billy from a later movie. That movie declares something that is related to the title of this movie.
  4. There’s a difficult parking job.
  5. If the movie’s director had been named Howard Horses, would this movie have been about a trucking fleet?
1591

Well, the clues don’t quite match up, and I don’t think Howard hrmmrhrmrmr directed it, but Five Came Back does have a famous redhead in it and was made between the wars, so that’s my first guess.

1592

Oh, I hadn’t heard of that one! I thought you were talking about the Mark Harris book and associated Netflix documentary about five swell directors who did some degree of military service in World War II. Quickly googling Five Came Back (1939) reveals… it is close to the one I’m thinking of. It isn’t the answer I’m looking for, but it looks like a cool movie and maybe I should track it down?

1593

It is a pretty cool film, actually. Written by Dalton Trumbo, I think. Worth a watch anyway. I’m not sure how well the depiction of Amazon indigenous peoples has aged, but anyhoo.

1594

Cold Mountain?

1595

Not Cold Mountain, but wow I just realized it’s almost been twenty years since I’ve seen that one (plus or minus three years).

1596

  • Might not be able to tell, but a famous redhead is in this one.
  • You might recognize Uncle Billy from a later movie. That movie declares something that is related to the title of this movie.
  • There’s a difficult parking job.
  • If the movie’s director had been named Howard Horses, would this movie have been about a trucking fleet?
1597

I’m not even sure this is a movie TBH (and I don’t want to disqualify myself by googling) but the phrase is floating in my head so –

Angels With Dirty Faces?

1598

I thought Angels with Dirty Faces was the fake gangster movie Kevin watched in Home Alone, but I guess that was Angels with Filthy Souls. Angels with Dirty Faces is a real movie, a gangster movie of this interwar period, but it’s not the one I’m thinking of. You’re on the right track though.

1599

Could it be Howard Hawks’ Only Angels have Wings??

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  • The setting: interwar, in ter mountains

These guys help nail down the location, which is not a model village
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These are the Andys from Hot Fuzz, who point to that this is set in, near, and over the Andes Mountains between World War I and II.

  • Might not be able to tell, but a famous redhead is in this one.

This would be Rita Hayworth, but it’s a black and white movie, so…

  • You might recognize Uncle Billy from a later movie. That movie declares something that is related to the title of this movie.

Character actor Thomas Mitchell would in a few years would play Uncle Billy and lose track of a lot of cash in It’s A Wonderful Life. It’s A Wonderful Life informs us that every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. The title of this movie informs us that only angels have wings. Logically, then, it follows that birds should not exist.

  • There’s a difficult parking job.

There’s a cool landing sequence:

https://youtu.be/eHqnFN7On4w

  • If the movie’s director had been named Howard Horses, would this movie have been about a trucking fleet?

But instead Howard Hawks did a movie about air freight.

It is! Nice one, @Buckaroo. You’re up.

1601

Ah ah! l get the Andys clue now! Nice!

Your next movie:

  1. Cast against type actor
  2. A windmill sound
  3. Fantastic writing credits
  4. A litany of dead men
  5. Trains
1602

The Spielberg version of War of the Worlds?

1603

Nope. And you can be certain l will never post a Spielberg movie*!
ls Tom Cruise really playing a quiet, modest, stay-at-home family man in War of the Worlds?

*l make an exception for Jaws.