One of the lesser reasons I like old movies is the cars, the exteriors (how small was your town back in 1956?) & the other things of the period. I was never a jet age person, I drool over the old piston engined planes and there was an excellent shot of one landing (before Toro's first fight) plus his leaving at the end.
Also dig the old Flxible bus that they used ! Been on/seen many of those.
Yes and it was interesting to see the old New York and L.A. airports as they were in 1956. They looked so quaint and unhurried!
shareI thought "bendy buses" were a new thing - they were introduced in Britain in the 1990s!
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What I found interesting is that back then, people could walk onto an airport runway even if they weren't getting on the plane. And of course, no security checks!
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"
The filmed interview with Joey the retired boxer in front of newstand was so current. Poor guy was clearly shown as having taken too many shots to the head.
He was washed up, living out of car, son dead in the war. Gone from million$ to nothing.
Fight game, football, like cigarettes in the 50s, people knew but chose to ignore longer term concerns. Maybe it was the advent of instant nuclear destruction after all-out global war that lead to the live for now mentality. Screw the risks since just living was risk enough.
Fixed fights, like wrestling, but dressed up to the public as a worthy sport using boy scout appearances, crippled children charity funds.
Think the scene with the call girl in Eddie's room while he was on phone came right after that discussion with the wife. Clearly Eddie called her in first place even though he had the woman in room with him. Screenwriters wanted to show the threats his wife faced by leaving Eddie alone to temptation. Men will be men is message. Not that he was slipping in morality or anything. Just a different era where the spoils went to the big boys. They weren't paying every day like a coffee shop.
Eddie still has same sensibilities and sides with the retiring boxer by saying he'd send him out on a cloud of glory. Ethics of a sort. Check that weight difference for that fight.
Broken neck, headaches, memory lapses,etc. "My head is killing me". Quite a film.
Modern boxers didn't escape boxing's long term ramifications either. It's like football in that careers aren't very long. When Muhammad Ali barely was able to lift the Olympic torch, I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing.
shareThe terminal building was usually the only thing enclosed. What we call concourses now, were a walkway, fenced on either side, with actual gates. Passengers walked through the gate to where the aircraft was parked, then up a portable staircase to the plane's door. There was a waiting area in the main terminal, not one at each gate.
In the jet age, concourses became actual buildings, but passengers still had to walk outside to the airplane. The jetways or jet bridges as they're often called, came along later.
Early airports were designed like train stations for the most part. Main terminal, then walk outside to the plane.
The OP was not speaking of articulated ("bendy") buses. He was talking about "Flexble" (correctly spelled without an "i"), a US manufacture of buses through the 1980s.
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