cricket crockett . . . NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON. But what else CAN you call it when a sister TV channel to White House Occupant "Trump's" top Fake News target persists in screening Real Life Lone Star Presidential Assassin "L.H. Oswald's" Training Film--SUDDENLY--month in and month out? Listening to the smirking "host" talking about this historical connection, it's easy to divine the message he's trying to convey to Liberal marksmen: "Take your best shot." The rogues' gallery of howling jackals showing up like flash mobs for White House "press briefings" certainly constitute an over-crowded room, and NO ONE is allowed to yell "Fire!" in such a place. However, blanketing Our Public Airwaves with such not-so-subliminal inducements to Rabble-Rousing, Riot-Incitement, and Regicide as SUDDENLY abruptly became par for Hollywood's traitorous course on Election Night, 2016. When some deranged degenerate is prompted by SUDDENLY to attack Occupant "Trump," it will be too late to squelch Rat Turner's Rebellion. A far better course of action would be to SUDDENLY nip these Enemy Abettors in their wallets by seizing their whole shebang of Seditious Media Witch Hunter Hangouts under the RICO Organized Crime laws, letting the "Koch Brothers" buy everything for a buck so that they can clean up the whole kit and caboodle like a Brawny Paper Towel sopping up spilt milk.

chrisconn Sinatra may not have tried to pull this film after the JFK assasination, but when you see him with a scoped rifle aiming from an elevated position, the similarities had to haunt him. Having lived through this event, it gave me chills.

clanciai Frank Sinatra makes a startling performance as a qualified murderer, and he does it well. His counterpart is Sterling Hayden as the chief of police, and they match each other perfectly. The story is a thriller building up in constantly increasing tension with eloquent surprises on the way, in which both the mother and child play important parts. There are many parallels in the set-up to "High Noon", and a number of scenes and situations are strikingly reminiscent and clearly influenced from Zinnemann's film, but the story here is totally different and queasily parallel to the president Kennedy murder. There are a number of other curious coincidental matters, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before the Kennedy assassination, and you can see the rest below under the Trivia. Montgomery Clift turned the part down, while Frank Sinatra had the guts to make it, and it's one of his major if not best performances. Of course, it can only end one way, so you need not worry, but it's expertly made, and you will be sure to bite your nails.

atlasmb In a town called Suddenly--which might pass for any small Midwestern town--little of note happens. But the normally quiet Mayberry gets more than its share of action and attention on this Saturday.The President of the U.S. is scheduled to arrive via train, so the Secret Service get there first to reconnoiter the train station and the properties that overlook it.It would be a shame to reveal too many details, but some locals get involved in a suspenseful showdown that might easily serve as the basis for a Hitchcock film.I would not call this film noir, but it is filmed in B&W. It is a psychological drama which delves into post-war issues.Frank Sinatra turns in a rare performance as the villain and he's rather good at it. Nancy Gates plays a widow who inadvertently enters the cross-hairs of the villain's plan. She delivers a strong performance as a mother whose primary motivation for living is the protection of her young son.Various political messages can be read into the plot. No matter which subtext one advocates, this is a story about courage. Maternal courage. Patriotic courage. And the behaviors that are often mistaken for being courageous.