GDG- Movies

[keith mackenzie]

Margaret:  Look up "Chewing up the scenery" In the dictionary, and there's a picture of Massey in this role! Just awsome. I wonder how many of our generation picture Brown as Raymond Massey?
  K

"Margaret D. Blough" <mdblough1 at comcast.net> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


The one thing I liked about Santa Fe Trail was Raymond Massey as John Brown. 

Regards,

Margaret

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From: John Baniszewski 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> In addition to the good movies, I also like the comiclly bad ones, the ones that 
> make GAG look like a documentary. 
> 
> "They died with their boots on" is a classic. My favorite scene is where 
> Winfield Scott is in the telegraph office in Washington, commanding the Union 
> Army at Gettysburg, and his realization that only the three cavalry regiments 
> under Custer can save Washington from being captured. 
> 
> I just saw the "Sante Fe Trail". I liked the West Point graduation scene, 
> where classmates JEB Stuart, George Thomas, James Longstreet, and George Custer 
> got together for the last time. I also liked the mounted cavalry charge by 400 
> men at Harper's Ferry against the building in which John Brown and his 200 men 
> were defeated, just an hour before Brown's force of 1,200 reinforcements from 
> Pennsylvania arrived. 
> 
> Who says you can't learn nothin' by seein' movies? Who needs history books 
> when you got Hollywood? 
> 
> John Baniszewski 
> 
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