Nong Khai Hotel

The ANTHEM of all traveller-raves done at full throat-busting volume at the ever-rocking, FLOATING GAIA BAR, Mut Mee guest-house, Nong Khai, Isaan – hope they heard it over the water in Laos !

DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (UK title: The Girl from Texas) is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by William Castle and starring Guy Madison and Diana Lynn. Eddie Tayloe (Madison) is a reporter assigned to the Ft. Worth desk of a Dallas newspaper, and as the two neighboring cities are feuding, therefore has nothing to do. He dreams of becoming a New York playwright, and a small inheritance from his grandfather gives him his chance. Quitting his job, he begins the long drive. Picking up hitchhiker Perry Denklin (Lynn), also looking for fame and fortune in New York, he shares with her encounters with various eccentric characters. The big city does not work out for either of them, and when Eddie finds Perry working in a Coney Island girlie show, he pulls her out and they find happiness together, buying a ranch back in Texas. Cast Guy Madison as Eddie Tayloe Diana Lynn as Perry Dunklin James Dunn as Mike Lionel Stander as Bellhop Florence Bates as Mandy Michael Chekhov as Gaboolian Margaret Hamilton as Ruby Cheever Moyna Macgill (credit: Moyna Magill) as Pearl Cheever Irene Ryan as Opal Cheever Colin Campbell as MacWirther Clem Bevans as Capt. Bjorn William Frawley as Agent Alvin Hammer as Bernie Roscoe Karns as Carmody Erskine Sanford as Dr. Danson John Gallaudet as McGonical With the film’s July 1948 opening, a one-scene bit in the Dallas newspaper office as a copy boy marked the screen debut of World War II hero and future …

DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film, about a “grassroots” political campaign, created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman, became a box office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for best original story (for Richard Connell and Robert Presnell Sr.). Though the film is less well known than other Capra classics, it remains highly regarded today. It was ranked #49 in AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Cheers. The film is now in the public domain. Infuriated at being told to write one final column after being laid off from her newspaper job, Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) prints a letter from a fictional unemployed “John Doe,” threatening suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of society’s ills. When the note causes a sensation and the paper’s competition suspects a fraud and starts to investigate, the newspaper editor rehires Mitchell who comes up with a scheme of hiding the fictional nature of “John Doe” while exploiting the sensation caused by the fake letter to boost the newspaper’s sales, for which she demands a bonus equal to 8 months’ pay. After reviewing a number of derelicts who have shown up at the paper claiming to have penned the original suicide letter, Mitchell and editor Henry Connell (James Gleason) hire John Willoughby (Gary Cooper), a former baseball player and tramp who is in need of money …