Opened in movie theaters 44 years ago today:
ALICE’S RESTAURANT (Arlo Guthrie; directed by Arthur Penn)
Review: “Arthur Penn’s “Alice’s Restaurant” is good work in a minor key. It isn’t a great film, but you never get the feeling that it wanted to be. ” —Roger Ebert, 1969
Trivia: The film features the first credited film appearance of character actor M. Emmet Walsh, playing the Group W sergeant. —wikipedia
Quote: “You’re a meathead – haven’t you play-acted cop enough for one day?”
WALTER BERNSTEIN, screenwriter and producer
Born: August 20, 1919, Brooklyn
First screen credit: adaptation of KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS (1948)
Blacklisted: in 1950
First emergence from the blacklist: screenplay for Sidney Lumet’s THAT KIND OF WOMAN (1959)
Academy Award nomination: Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen’s THE FRONT (1976)
Recommended films as writer: FAIL-SAFE, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, SEMI-TOUGH, THE FRONT…
ON THIS DAY in 1882, in Moscow, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky performed his 1812 Overture for the first time. This event was dramatized in the 1970 Ken Russell film, THE MUSIC LOVERS, starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson.
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