Coming to TCM! - The Lost Missile Discussion

[–] Boaz357 15 years ago

Actually, its today april 1 at 3:45 am eastern.

Great they are showing this rarity.

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I'm watching it now and am very glad that I didn't switch over to another movie channel! I found the description intriguing. I would have been about 7 years old when this was released, but with one movie theater and one drive-in, it might have missed us. I say that because my father was a major sci fi fan who turned me into one, too! I recall worrying myself physically ill because I thought he wouldn't get away from work in time for us to go to the drive-in to see "Tobor the Great"!

I still have loyalty to the Fifties films and get very peeved at the sassy, nasty, viperish reviews from people who grew up on "Star Wars"~and who now slam George Lucas! Brats! I'm happy to hear there are exceptions, Gen X&Y members who love the old-style films.

I can't believe that I nearly passed up this one! I'd happily watch it again. Most people would never guess the sacrifice at the end, as they always suppose Fifties films were "happily ever after".

~~MystMoonstruck~~

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[–] max von meyerling 15 years ago

R as in Robert Loggia
O as in Oh look, there's Robert Loggia
B as in by God, there's Robert Loggia
E ....

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[–] MystMoonstruck 15 years ago

OK... I admit that had a great deal to do with why I stuck around to see the movie: ROBERT LOGGIA~T.H.E. Cat! Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat! Gen X might think of him as the guy on the keyboard with Tom Hanks, but we Baby Boomers know him as the very cool Cat=}

Anything featuring him in the cast is worth a look!
to continue...
E as in elegant
R as in RROWRRRRR!
T as in terrific leading man!

~~MystMoonstruck~~

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[–] Bill-16 11 years ago

" Not Okay!" wait, actually this movie was okay.. and Robert Loggia is always great. Just glad Family Guy loves him too.

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[–] madman58 11 years ago

and beaver pal WHITEY WITNEY too!

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[–] Miqque 15 years ago

Some engineer was really on the ball tonight during the showing of 'The Lost Missile' - equipment seized at least twice and was promptly attended to. Good work!

As for the film, this was surprisingly good. A pastiche of Cold War fervor, a mystery missile cuts a five-mile swath of destruction, heading across Canada straight for Ottawa and New York! The star is Robert Loggia, very young and unlike the gangsters he later played so often. The human response to the Cold War conditions is highlights, with many small vignettes showing how different people react. A highlight was a single woman being woken by the phone, and with about six words of dialogue went from grumpy at being woken to terrified and in fast action. Another, a Scandinavian-accented father building a snowman for his small daughter. But, right in the destructive path of the missile. Surely, the narration and editing were indications of a low-budget film, but this is one where the folks making it did the best they could with their restriction. Well worth a viewing, both as a historical snapshot of the time and as a pretty darned good story from a humanistic point of view. I so appreciate TCM!
-M.

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[–] meowlin 15 years ago

>>Another, a Scandinavian-accented father<<

Quebecois, actually.

This movie made me a Robert Loggia fan from the time my age could be measured in a single digit. I've been waiting to see this one again for, literally, decades. And, miracle of miracles, I was tipped off to it's airing, and had a blank tape handy!

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[–] verbusen 14 years ago

Anyone Lost Missile airings coming up? Please post send me a message at verbusen on youtube. I DVR'd it and TCM played it past the scheduled time by about one or two minutes. They have done that before, drives me crazy! I want to see the ending, even though I know how it must end I'd still like to see it!

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