I'm just what is around you

[sovay]

In my defense, Whit Bissell was not in "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" (2018), but he sure was in Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). I may write about this movie; I ordered it from the library last week when I was thinking about prison noir based on Brute Force (1947) and I wish I'd seen some intermediary examples to compare with, but it's fast, ferocious, and the punch of its Pyrrhic victory for prison reform has only gotten more extra-diegetically upsetting in light of what hasn't changed—or has worsened—in the last sixty years. Cast entirely composed of character actors, most of whom I've never seen anywhere near a leading role before. So who plays the unsympathetic screw turned favorite hostage of the prisoners forced to bargain for their own rights?



Me to spatch: "Did I accidentally summon him? Is he just in my movies now?"

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[sovay]

Not prison noir, but waterfront noir, so I instantly thought of you when I stumbled on this

With Ben Lyon! Thank you. Did you stumble on it in the sense of watching it, and if so, how was it?

[davidgillon]

I was googling some naval stuff, and hit on a mention of two US vessels that had the annual job of picking up elephant seals for the San Diego zoo*, with a mention that the book's author had used the story, so followed the link, and hey, Sovay candy...

The page I was reading is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle-class_patrol_craft, and as well as linking to the page on the film, it links to an extract from the book at https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2004/feb/19/i-cover-waterfront/?page=2#

TLDR: no, only thing I saw was the wiki page.


*Needing to do it annually does not impress!

[sovay]

with a mention that the book's author had used the story, so followed the link, and hey, Sovay candy...

Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

Needing to do it annually does not impress!

The zoo traded them. To other zoos, for animals they couldn't collect themselves. I just found out. I had no idea there was such a barter system among early zoos!