Things We Lost In The Flood

I just finished watching The Phenix City Story which starred Richard Kiley, whom Joe and I were trying hard to remember what we had seen him in before. After checking the IMDB I discovered that not only was he in Pickup On South Street, one of my favorite Samuel Fuller films, but I first came to know him as the pilot from the film adaptation of The Little Prince. Turns out Riley's quite the warbler, having won the Tony for originating the role in Man Of La Mancha on the Broadway stage.



Mother of God, how I cried and cried during this scene with Riley and the little boy. It's funny though, because I saw this movie in the theater with my 5th grade class and my best friend Andrea bawled and wailed during the scene where Gene Wilder was sitting in the wheat field, which I thought was one of the funniest scenes in the whole movie, so I'm cackling and she's howling, and that's all I can think about whenever I watch this picture. Except when I cry during the death of the prince. Yeah, I'm a sucker.