The Fool KIller

I watched an old VHS copy a billion years ago from my library of this. Now it's on youtube. For some reason it stayed with me. It's a typical coming of age story complete with a boogeyman plot but I don't know there's something special about it. Anthony Perkins plays the psychotic title role. Yeah he was typecast because he was so good at it. This is about a boy drifter who befriends another wanderer Perkins. He has to think of whether he is going to stay with the family who takes him in or not. I even read the book this was based on although I think the movie got it down better.

The Wizard of Oz

I haven't watched this movie for years. I watched Wicked and read the L. Frank Baum classic and decided it needed another viewing. I forgot about how the humans in Dorothy's life link up with the Oz characters. My sister remarked that Toto didn't have much personality which was something I had never thought of before. The scene where he catches Oz at the curtain is truly hilarious. The score is also pretty amazing too. This is a cinematic classic all the way and Judy Garland never looked better.

Miranda

This was a cute British comedy from the 1940s about a mermaid brought into the human world by a physician. The man tries to hide her as an invalid but it isn't before long until the neigbors and everyone else figures out something fishy is going on. One man falls madly in love with her. Glynis Johns is charming. Although she had a long career she didn't have the lead role enough.