Escape to the movies—Maybe the OLD movies

Maybe a Drama?

The Rain Maker

Burt Lancaster:  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000044/bio

Katherine Hepburn  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katharine-Hepburn

Lloyd Bridges:  https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/lloyd-bridges/credits/162573/

A con artist claims he can bring rain to a drought ravaged Southwestern town, instilling self-confidence in a plain woman who feared becoming an old maid.  Based on the play by

N. Richard Nash  https://www.nrichardnash.com/

Directed by Joseph Anthony         https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0030917/

How To Keep Calm And Carry On

https://www.doyou.com/how-to-keep-calm-and-carry-on/

Wapping

South of Whitechapel lies Wapping more intimately connected to the river.  The hamlet was noted for boat building and ancillary activities and for its many taverns, some of which survive.

its heart were the the London Docks, built between 1800 and 1820:  attractive terraces of housing for employees survive at the entrance to Wapping Basin.  Today …Many old warehouses have been converted into stylish riverside apartments ….

Movie about the area:  The Long Good Friday (1980)

Filmed in 1979, John Mackenzie’s blistering gangster opus proved eerily prescient, anticipating as it does both the ‘greed is good’ mentality that would come to define 1980s consumer culture, and the transformation of London’s Docklands from industrial wasteland to global economic powerhouse and Olympic site. Bob Hoskins tears up the screen as self-satisfied crime lord Harold Shand, dogged in his determination to persuade an American mob boss (Eddie Constantine) to invest in his vision for East End regeneration. But hours after his esteemed guest lands on British soil, Shand learns that two of his employees have been murdered, and it becomes suddenly apparent that his empire is under serious threat.

Whitechapel:  Whitechapel (2009 – 2013) https://www.dvdplanetstore.pk/shop/drama/whitechapel/

A fast-tracked inspector, a hardened detective sergeant, and an expert in historical homicides investigate modern crimes with connections to the past in the Whitechapel district of London.

Exploring London:  White Chapel and Wapping

Photos of Wapping 1970s:  https://flashbak.com/shabby-not-chic-photos-wapping-whitechapel-1973-394049/

It used to be known as The Devil’s Tavern

https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/creepy-story-behind-uks-oldest-17832848

Walking about Key West

This originally was a Naval Storehouse — it was destined  For much better items in it’s confines than the Navy had.

in 1967 Mel Fisher began a search that would make him Famous and he spent 16 years in the quest for Spanish Treasure Galleons.  He found items from the ships along the way but it was on July 20, 1985 that he found the Atocha’s main pile of trasure including 1,000 silver bars.

Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story  DVD:  

https://www.amazon.com/dp/6304810822?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_amazon&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_amazon-20

The Dreamweaver: The Story of Mel Fisher and His Quest for the Treasure of the Spanish Galleon Atocha

https://www.amazon.com/Dreamweaver-Fisher-Treasure-Spanish-Galleon/dp/0962835978

The finds (including 3 Spanish ships two treasure ships, a ship caring conquistadors  to the new world) and an English Merchant Slave ship carrying their human merchandise to the colonies of the new world.

A tour of the treasures at the museum

https://www.amazon.com/dp/6304810822?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_amazon&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_amazon-20

next we’ll walk further down Green Street

An illustration of the battleship USS Maine from Pictorial History of Our War with Spain for Cuba’s Freedom, by Trumbull White, ca. 1898.    https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/fake-news-in-the-1890s-yellow-journalism/sources/1766