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Poet and Publisher ginger rogersROBERT FROST This lovely color film from 1961 was shot over the course of a year, mostly in the region of Robert Frost's solitary mountain cabin in Vermont. Probably the most celebrated American poet of the twentieth Century, Frost in his mid eighties is seen in three seasons walking the landscape while he is heard reading from about twenty five of his poems inspired by what is shown. We hear all or part of "October," "The Sound of Trees,"

While a small Irish town prepares for a fast-approaching Christmas

hunger and peril

honing her survival skills

silver and crystal from the palace dining hall

But most of all

Harry Applefish

Eugene O'Neill's riveting play about a family torn apart by greed explodes onto the screen in a soaring film version starring Anthony Perkins and Sophia Loren

" "Katie Went to Haiti" and "Do I Love You

Should he save the town or be with Patti

a herpetologist investigating a series of fatal rattlesnake attacks discovers that the creatures have been infected by a mysterious nerve gas disposed of in the desert by the military

leading to chaos and destruction in their lives

Many of the Griffith Biographs rank with the finest movies he ever made