October in movie history - Porklips Now (1980):

Porklips Now

directed and written by Ernie Fosselius,

was released at the Chicago International Film Festival in the United States in October, 1980.
Exact release date unknown.
A short spoof of Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Music by Dick Bright, Tom Donald, Ernie Fosselius and Ken Melville.

Cast:

Billy Gray, Ernie Fosselius, John Brent, Leon Martell, Mark Lee, Jim Turner, Larry Walker, Tom Bullock.

On this day in movie history - Gloria (1980):

Gloria

directed and written by John Cassavetes,

was released in the United States on October 1, 1980.
Music by Bill Conti.

Cast:

Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich, Gregory Cleghorne, Buck Henry, John Adames, Lupe Garnica, Jessica Castillo, Tom Noonan, Ronald Maccone, George Yudzevich, Gary Howard Klar, William E. Rice, Frank Belgiorno, J.C. Quinn, Alex Stevens, Sonny Landham, Harry Madsen, Shanton Granger, John Pavelko, Ray Baker, Ross Charap, Irvin Graham, Michael Proscia, T.S. Rosenbaum, Santos Morales, Meta Shaw Stevens, Marilyn Putnam, John Finnegan, Gaetano Lisi, Richard M. Kaye, Steve Lefkowitz, George Poidomani, Lawrence Tierney, Asa Adil Qawee, Vincent Pecorella, Iris Fernandez, Jade Bari, David Resnick, Thomas J. Buckman, Joe Dabenigno, Bill Wiley, John M. Sefakis, Val Avery, Walter Dukes, Janet Ruben, Ferruccio Hrvatin, Edward Wilson, Basilio Franchina, Carl Levy, Warren Selvaggi, Nathan Seril, Vladimir Drazenovic, Edward Jacobs, Brad Johnston, Jerry Jaffe, Chris McCabe Adams, Maja Niles, Jerry Schram, Filomena Spagnuolo.

On this day in music history:

Crystal Ball by Styx (1976)

There Is Always One More Time by B.B. King (1991)

The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002 by 2002 (2002)

Someone Like Me by Sherry Finzer (2011)

Sol Novo by Olivia Belli (2021)

Warming by the Devil’s Fire / documentary (2003)

Crystal Ball

Album by Styx,

released October 1, 1976.

Track list: Put Me on; Mademoiselle; Jennifer; Crystal Ball; Shooz; This Old Man; Clair de Lune/Ballerina.

There Is Always One More Time

Album by B.B. King,

released October 1, 1991.

Track list: I’m Moving On; Back In L.A.; The Blues Come Over Me; Fool Me Once; The Lowdown; Mean And Evil; Something Up My Sleeve; Roll, Roll, Roll; There Is Always One More Time.

The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002

Album by 2002,

released October 1, 2002.

Track list: City of Peace; Lovers’ Bridge; Summer of 300 Years; Lady of the Moon; The Sea at Night; Stella Maris; Kindred Spirit; To Touch the Sky; The Calling; The Ocean Dreams; Full Circle.

Someone Like Me

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released October 1, 2011.

Track list: Moves Like Jagger; Firework; Payphone; Someone Like You; Marry Me; Give Your Heart a Break; Call Me Maybe; Breathe; Raise Your Glass; Only Girl; What Makes You Beautiful; Someone Like You (Bonus Track).

Sol Novo

Album by Olivia Belli,

released October 1, 2021.

Track list: Two Seas; Island I; Open Air; Bora; Grain Moon; Island II; Bilico; Fingers, Be Rain; Grembo; Visions to Come; Bleak; As I Was; The Light Endures.

Warming by the Devil’s Fire

Documentary directed and written by Charles Burnett.

Part 4 of the documentary series The Blues.

Produced by Martin Scorsese.

Released in the United States on October 1, 2003.

Additional music by Stephen James Taylor.

Cast: Tommy Redmond Hicks, Nathaniel Lee Jr., Carl Lumbly, Ivy Cassel, Frances Horton White, Susan McWilliams, Tommie Tc Carter, Goodman. Wille, Colleen White, Vasti Jackson, Nathaniel Lee Sr., Ted Davis, Ilona W. Wilkes, Jay R. Unger, Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Chatmon, Elizabeth Cotton, Ida Cox, Gary Davis, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin Hopkins, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sonny Terry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson.

On this day in movie history - Diary of the Dead (1976 movie & novel):

Diary of the Dead

directed by Arvin Brown,

written by I.C. Rapoport and Robert L. Fish,

based on the novel One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell,

was released in the United States in October 1976.
Exact release date unknown.
Music by Jacques Urbont.

Cast:

Hector Elizondo, Edward Binns, Joyce Ebert, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Salome Jens, Laurie Kennedy, Joseph Maher, James Naughton, Austin Pendleton, George Spalding, Richard Venture, Lee Wallace, Kate Wilkinson.

Recommended reading:

One Across, Two Down

By Ruth Rendell.

Filmed as Diary of the Dead (1976), directed by Arvin Brown.

Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.

First published 1971.

ASIN: 0375704949

ISBN-10: 9780375704949

ISBN-13: 978-0375704949

Description:

Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. For Mrs. Kinaway lives with them now – and she will stop at nothing to tear their marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley sets aside his crossword puzzles and changes all their lives forever...

In One Across, Two Down, master crime writer Ruth Rendell describes a man whose strained sanity and stained reputation transform him from a witless loser into a killer afraid of his own shadow.  Mischievously plotted, smart, maddeningly entertaining, One Across, Two Down is a dark delight – classic Rendell.

"The best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." – Time.

On this day in television history - Johnny Staccato (1959):

Johnny Staccato

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: The Shop of the Four Winds.

Released October 1, 1959.

Directed by Boris Sagal.

Written by Sidney Michaels.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Nobu McCarthy, Don Gordon, Fuji, Robert Kino, Bob Okazaki, Pete Candoli, Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, John Williams, Edwin Rochelle, Victor Romito, Chalky Williams.

On this day in movie history - Trapped (1949):

Trapped

directed by Richard Fleischer,

written by Earl Felton and George Zuckerman,

was released in the United States on October 1, 1949.

Narrated by William Woodson.

Music by Sol Kaplan.

Cast:

Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway, Robert Karnes, Douglas Spencer, Lyle Latell.

Born on this day – Rosanna Norton:

Rosanna Norton

Costume Designer

October 1, 1944 – May 7, 2025

Credits:

A Very Brady Sequel (1996); Airplane II: The Sequel (1982); Airplane! (1980); Angels in the Outfield (1994); Ascension Day (2007); Badlands (1973); Barb Wire (1996); Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison (2025); Bone Chillers (1996); Boogievision (1977); Carrie (1976); Casper (1995); Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979); Cisco Pike (1971); Desert Breeze (1996); Detroit Rock City (1999); Don't Go in the Woods: Cast & Crew (2006); Explorers (1985); Fire Down Below (1997); Frankie and Johnny (1991); Get Crazy (1983); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990); Growing Up Brady (2000); Hard to Hold (1984); Homewrecker (1992); I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978); Innerspace (1987); Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973); Loverboy (1989); Messiah of Evil (1974); Nothing in Common (1986); Operation Dumbo Drop (1995); Out for a Kill (2003); Outlaw Blues (1977); Perfect Family (1992); Phantom of the Paradise (1974); Phantom of the Paradise: Costume Designer Rosanna Norton (2014); Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982); RoboCop 2 (1990); Ruthless People (1986); South of Sunset (1993); Surviving (1985); The Brady Bunch Movie (1995); The 'Burbs (1989); The Experts (1989); The Explorers (1972–1973); The Flintstones (1994); The Maker (1997); The Patriot (1998); The Pool Boys (2009); The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton (1992); The Stunt Man (1980); Trackdown (1976); Treacherous Crossing (1992); Tron (1982); Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999).