The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
May
12
1852
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A little girl finds comfort in a rag doll. She's sitting against a wooden grave marker. Another scene reveals the date. DP: Winton C. Hoch.
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
May
12
1852
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A little girl finds comfort in a rag doll. She's sitting against a wooden grave marker. Another scene reveals the date. DP: Winton C. Hoch.
“A thousand men, say, go searchin' for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin' over a mountain, goin' hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin' and the gettin' of it.”The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
Feb
14
1925

The winning lottery numbers of February 14, 1925. DP: Ted D. McCord.
– Howard
“Right now, I don't know if it's me or the dynamite that doin' all that sweatin'.”The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966)
Jan
12
1812

The sheriff jolts something down next to a wall calendar that reads January 12, 1812. Just visible through a window, Jake (Woody Strode) approaches. DP: Conrad L. Hall.
– Jake Sharp
拳銃は俺のパスポート [Koruto wa ore no pasupōto / A Colt Is My Passport] (Takashi Nomura, 1967)
Nov
3
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A blurry shot of a man with a moustache in a space with chairs and a round table. DP: Shigeyoshi Mine.
“Denn auf den Bergen, ja da ist die Freiheit,
denn auf den Bergen ist es doch so schön,
dort wo auf grauenhafte Weise
der Jennerwein zugrund mußt gehn.”Jaider, der einsame Jäger [Jaider, the Lonely Hunter] (Volker Vogeler, 1971)
Sep
5
Mother Teresa

Gottfried John as Jaider (via). DP: Gérard Vandenberg.
Mother Teresa's death day: someone assists the poor. A Heimatfilm in reverse and Italowestern in disguise.
Jennerwein-Lied, 19th c.
Jaider, just returned home from the Franco-Prussian War and incapable to find work, turns to poaching to feed himself and his impoverished town. Soon he leads a gang of poachers, who in their turn are hunted by Bavarian soldiers and state-sanctioned hunters. Loosely based on legendary “Jaider” (“hunter”) and poacher Georg Jennerwein.
ビリィ★ザ★キッドの新しい夜明け [Birī za kiddo no atarashii yoake / The New Morning of Billy the Kid] (Naoto Yamakawa, 1986)
May
31
National Utah Day

Director Naoto Yamakawa directing Billy the Kid (Hiroshi Mikami) on site in Utah (via) DP: Kenji Takama.
An actor, director or character from Utah – National Utah Day (USA)
Billy the Kid steps out of a huge poster of Monument Valley right into a Tokyo bar and becomes its bar keeper. Together with a samurai, a WW2 G.I, Marx-Engels (not a typo), the Japanese weather service number 177 and others, he keeps the tavern safe from various thugs roaming the streets.
“I don't need a card to figure out who I am. I already know.”Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller, 1962)
Dec
15
bread

Jerry Bondi (Gena Rowlands) kneads dough. DP: Philip H. Lathrop.
– Jack Burns
“Whoever dies for the country hasn't lived in vain. I, on the contrary, will live for the country because I'm not that stupid.”Touche pas à la femme blanche [Don't Touch the White Woman!] (Marco Ferreri, 1974)
Nov
23
potato chips

Two white Frenchmen – in a University of Columbia and a CIA sweatshirt respectively – comment on the “period piece” they're in. CIA man (Paolo Villaggio) stuffs his face with potato chips. DP: Étienne Becker.
– George A. Custer
狼やくざ 殺しは俺がやる [Ōkami yakuza: Koroshi wa ore ga yaru / Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder / The Lone Assassin] (Ryūichi Takamori, 1972)
Jul
13
lollipops

One of the gang members, immaculately dressed in all-black and small like a child, walks along a seedy street holding an oversized rainbow lollipop. DP: Yoshio Nakajima.
Los hermanos Del Hierro [My Son, the Hero] (Ismael Rodríguez, 1961)
Mar
19
revenge

Brothers Martín (Julio Alemán) and Reynaldo Del Hierro (Antonio Aguilar) drinking in a cantina. Reynaldo, the older one, looks pensive while the younger takes a big gulp of beer. DP: Rosalío Solano.
A dish best served cold.