The Dion Brothers (1974)

Directed by Jack Starrett. aka The Gravy Train. Stacy Keach. Frederic Forrest. Terrence Malick writing. A cult crime item that was little seen for a long time but there is one up on Youtube at the moment. I have still only watched it full screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gravy_Train

Jack Starrett replaced original director Terrence Malick. 

The title was changed from "The Gravy Train" to "The Dion Brothers" after audiences at sneak previews and other early screenings indicated that they thought the original name sounded like a movie about dog food (Gravy Train being the name of a well-known American pet food).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071575/

Trout Meuniere

 

Shrimp mirliton has been popular here and I am eating crawfish etouffee from the freezer. Several years ago on Kinja I did a short Louisiana cooking series. Apart from the dishes I've cooked myself on Cooking With Wu. I have those saved in a Documents file. Grits and Grillades and Shrimp poboy are the only things I've posted so far. Original text on Kinja:

Louisiana Creole dish. Not to be confused with Trout Amandine, which half the pictures on Google are. It’s pretty easy. Browned butter with lemon and parsley on a lightly floured fish filet. Speckled trout is the saltwater fish we catch on the coast. Can be used for other species.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/trout-a-la-meuniere-3645890

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuni%C3%A8re_sauce

https://www.finecooking.com/recipe/trout-la-meuniere

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speckled_Trout_Fishing_Louisiana.jpg

Speckled trout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynoscion_nebulosus

Barricini Ice Cream

 

1987.

Bagel Bites

 

Pizza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel_Bites

Clue Club

 

1976 CBS. Hanna-Barbera. 16 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_Club

https://www.metv.com/stories/this-is-what-the-saturday-morning-tv-lineup-looked-like-40-years-ago

Pillsbury Wiener Wrap

 

New 1976. Is that legal?

http://www.inthe70s.com/food/pillsburyhotdogwraps0.shtml

Nightmare Alley (1947)

 

Stunningly dark film noir. One of my favorite movies. The rise and fall of a carnival con man and mentalist. Tyrone Power. Mike Mazurki as Bruno. This was one of the first noirs I watched that had a real budget. Not a B picture. And it was stunning. More time and money means more lighting complexity and camera moves. This is a great movie. And one of the darkest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Alley_(1947_film)

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1644alle.html

https://film.avclub.com/the-narrow-margin-dillinger-club-paradise-nightmare-1798200904

Eddie Muller TCM intro.

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/85008/nightmare-alley#articles-reviews?articleId=650428

https://trailersfromhell.com/nightmare-alley-2/

Poster advertising sideshow at the Rutland Fair, Vermont

 

1941.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017750418/

Strange painting on a wrecked car. Swepsonville, North Carolina

 

1940.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017747641/

Cass Malloy

 

1982 CBS failed pilot. The premise became She's the Sheriff with Suzanne Somers. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780493/

Ryan's Four

 

1983 ABC. Tim Daly, Tom Skerritt, Dirk Blocker. Doctors. 6 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%27s_Four

11:53

Filthy Rich

 

1982 CBS. I watched a couple of these on Youtube. Soap opera parody. 15 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filthy_Rich_(1982_TV_series)

This promo is new.

Ross Thomas Collection

 

I am missing two. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Thomas_(author)

https://crimereads.com/ross-thomas-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/

https://ethaniverson.com/newgate-callendar/ah-treachery-ross-thomas/

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/are-the-fools-in-town-still-on-our-side-a-ross-thomas-retrospective/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/11/remembering-ross-thomas/305944/

Temple Kung Fu

 

1984.

A Challenge? You Bet It Is.

Tom Tuttle. (Skip to 2:55.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteers_(1985_film)

Volunteers (1985)

New Orleans, Louisiana. Gasoline advertisement

 

1943.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017850422/

Escort

 

1979 crackers. 

http://www.inthe80s.com/food/escortcrackers0.shtml

509-B: The Illegal Detonation of Poultry

 

Hello, it's us.

Bob and June Wheeler on Night Court.

https://tv.avclub.com/brent-spiner-on-playing-conan-o-brien-data-on-star-tre-1798232012

Night Court (1985-1987)—“Bob Wheeler”
BS: I think it was the first thing I did when I came out to Hollywood. It was just one of those things that… I’m from Texas, and it was a character I’d been doing when I was a kid, just for fun. Me and my friends would go into a Denny’s or something, and I would be that guy and order… [Bob Wheeler drawl.] A patty melt. Yeah. With extra cheese. [Laughs.] So I would do that character, and I never dreamed when I was a kid that I’d walk into a casting session and they’d hand me a script and I’d read it and go, “Oh my God! This is…” It was a character I called Elmo, and I read it and went, “Oh my God, this is Elmo! I can just go in there and do Elmo!” And I did, and they let me do it. I think we were probably going to become at least semi-regulars on the show in the next season. We did six of them, though. And when I say “we,” I mean Annie O’Donnell, who played my wife, and myself. I think they were kind of prepping us to come on in some capacity like that, but then I got Star Trek, and that was that.

Stone Basin & Bronze Dragon at Mitake

 

Late 1800s.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-c5da-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Narrow Margin (1952) and Narrow Margin (1990)

 

Again highlighting the George E. Diskant cinematography. A great train film and noir. Directed by Richard Fleischer. Marie Windsor is the woman in danger. Remade by Peter Hyams with Gene Hackman and Anne Archer. Also M. Emmet Walsh and J.T. Walsh. Works pretty well as a train double feature. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrow_Margin

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1919/the-narrow-margin#articles-reviews?articleId=66959

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1657narr.html

https://www.criminalelement.com/dangers-on-a-train-the-narrow-margin-1952-and-1990/

https://obscuretrainmovies.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/the-narrow-margin-1952/