Pusher Trilogy

For Veteran's Day, because his character's name was Pusher. For the man because he must have been one of the most used character actors for a long long time.

Watched Sergeant York on TCM's Veteran's Day fete yesterday.

One of his platoon buddies was nicknamed "Pusher" because he worked on the NY subway and said his talent was pushing people off and onto the trains.



Played by actor George Tobias, who's mug you might remember, if you watch old movies. Very colorful actor who started his career in 1927. His last movie was 1970's Tora! Tora! Tora!. Was in a lot of War movies, some Westerns, even some musicals.. Was in some Oscar winning movies and a lot of just really good movies. Didn't remember him being in all of these, but remember all of them.

Movies that are good, either to me or to the critics.
The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Ninotchka (1939), Passage to Marseille (1944), Objective, Burma! (1945), Rawhide (1951), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), The Seven Little Foys (1955), Bullet for a Badman (1964) & Torra! Torra! Tora! (1970).

James Cagney, Greta Garbo., Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, George Raft, Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale Jr., Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Errol Flynn, Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Ann Blyth, Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Bob Hope, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Eva Gabor, Maurice Chevalier, Henry Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Audie Murphy, Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotton, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, John Derek, Aldo Ray, Arthur O'Connell,

In movies with these musicians: Musicians: Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Ben Pollack,

Missing out!

I just finished this trilogy (which, as a PSA for everyone, is free on Amazon Prime right now).

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Good movies are meant to evoke emotions, and sometimes those emotions are uncomfortable or even disturbing. Such is the case with this trilogy (and, yes, that is meant to be high praise). Rarely have I seen a film (or a series of them) that leads to such impending feelings of despair, hopelessness, and nihilism, all of which are aided here by the realism achieved with the low budget and mind-bending lighting schemes. If gritty crime stories are your thing, this is your jam. Simply incredible.