Monday, November 10, 2025

On this day in movie history - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017):


Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

directed and written by Martin McDonagh,
was released in the United States on November 10, 2017.
Music by Carter Burwell.


Cast:

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Kerry Condon, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kathryn Newton, Brendan Sexton III, Amanda Warren, Malaya Drew, Christopher Berry, Jerry Winsett, Sandy Martin, Nick Searcy.

On this day in music history - The Circle, by Bon Jovi (2009):


The Circle

Album by Bon Jovi,
released November 10, 2009.

Track list:

We Weren’t Born to Follow; When We Were Beautiful; Work for the Working Man; Superman Tonight; Bullet; Thorn in My Side; Live Before You Die; Brokenpromiseland; Love’s the Only Rule; Fast Cars; Happy Now; Learn to Love.

On this day in movie history - James Ellroy: American Dog (2006):


James Ellroy: American Dog

documentary directed and written by Clara Kuperberg and Robert Kuperberg,
was released in France on November 10, 2006.

Cast:

James Ellroy, William J. Bratton, Dana Delany, Gerald Derloshon, William Stoner, Bruce Wagner, Tim Wride.

On this day in movie history - La Balance (1982):


La Balance

English translation: The Informer,
released in the United States as: The Nark,
directed by Bob Swaim,
written by Mathieu Fabiani and Bob Swaim,
was released in France on November 10, 1982.
Music by Roland Bocquet.


Cast:

Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet, Bernard Freyd, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-Paul Comart, Albert Dray, Florent Pagny, Tchéky Karyo, Raouf Ben Yaghlane, Galia Salimo, Sam Karmann, Robert Atlan, Luc-Antoine Diquéro, Jean-Daniel Laval, Geoffrey Carey, Michel Amphoux, Gérard Baume, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Claude Villers, Mostefa Zerguine, Patrick Guillaumes, Catherine Le Dall, Guy Dhers, François Berléand, Sidney Boccara, Marc Ballif, Christian Gaubert, David Overbey, Lorella De Gennaro, Audrey Lazzini.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):


Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 10.
Episode entitled: Black Sun.
Released November 10, 1975.
Directed by Lee H. Katzin.
Written by David Weir.
Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.
Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Paul Jones, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate, Jon Laurimore, Tony Allyn, Loftus Burton, Ronald Chenery, Melita Clarke, Philip Clifton, Andy Dempsey, Richard Eden, Sandor Elès, Guy Groen, Alan Harris, Jan Harvey, Barbara Kelly, Chai Lee, Jack McKenzie, Quentin Pierre, Vincent Wong, David Robb, Suzanne Roquette, Corinne Skinner-Carter, Lesley Stamps, Michael Stevens, Marc Zuber.

On this day in movie history - Lenny (movie & play):


Lenny

directed by Bob Fosse,
written by Julian Barry,
based on the play by Julian Barry,
was released in the United States on November 10, 1974.
Music by Ralph Burns.


Cast:

Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Frankie Man, Rashel Novikoff, Gary Morton, Guy Rennie, Michele Yonge, Kathryn Witt, Monroe Myers, John DiSanti, Mickey Gatlin, Martin Begley, Mark Harris, Richard Friedman, Lee Sandman, Jack Nagle, Phil Philbin, Bruce McLaughlin, Ted Sorel, Clarence Thomas, Mike Murphy, Susan Malnik, George DeWitt, Judy LaScala, Don Newsome, Allison Goldstein, Winston Lee, Bridghid Glass, Joe Mencel, Richard O'Barry, Beth Challis, Robert Parsons, Cecil Seay, Bob Collins.

Recommended reading:


Lenny:
A Play, Based on the Life and Words of Lenny Bruce

By Julian Barry.

Published 1971.
Mass Market Paperback.
Published by Grove Press.
ISBN 13: 9780394177625
ISBN 10: 0394177622
ASIN: 0394177622

On this day in movie history - Tony Rome (movie & novel):


Tony Rome

directed by Gordon Douglas,
written by Richard L. Breen,
based on the novel Miami Mayhem by Marvin Albert,
was released in the United States on November 10, 1967.
Music by Billy May.


Cast:

Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland, Jeffrey Lynn, Lloyd Bochner, Sue Lyon, Robert J. Wilke, Virginia Vincent, Joan Shawlee, Richard Krisher, Lloyd Gough, Babe Hart, Templeton Fox, Rocky Graziano, Elisabeth Fraser, Shecky Greene, Jeanne Cooper, Harry Davis, Stanley Ralph Ross, Rey Baumel, Sean Bersell, Tiffany Bolling, Linda Dano, Levi Forte, Robert 'Buzz' Henry, Beau Jack, Deanna Lund, Norman Marlow, Jilly Rizzo, Michael Romanoff, Joe E. Ross, Carl Starling.

Recommended reading:


Miami Mayhem

By Marvin Albert.

Filmed as Tony Rome (1967), directed by Gordon Douglas.

Published 1960.
Published by Fawcett.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0449133869
ISBN-13: 978-0449133866

Description:

Miami. The city.
Rome. The man.

He’s a hard-living, hard-loving private detective, who’s been muscling through Miami’s vice longer than any punk in a baggy suit. He gets his fill of offers from women. But the brand of cruising he prefers is aboard his luxury power boat, the Straight Pass. The roads of pleasure and danger are many. But all the roads lead to Rome….

Filmed as "Tony Rome" in 1967. Then released as "Tony Rome"(1967) by the author based on the film script. It seemed a routine little job.... Just return a high-flying heiress to her worried papa. But some of a man's worst messes start out as routine little jobs. This one really hits the pedal, with a body on the floor of Tony's office, the head smashed by a bullet. The bait to catch the filler: a daisy-shaped, gold-and-diamond pin that couldn't bring enough to be worth anybody's trouble. Or worth murdering for...