Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to the reviews, interviews and more

As always, please let me know if I've missed your or anyone else's contribution this week in comments...thanks.

Anne Billson: Les malheurs de Sophie and 11 older films; poetry in film

Anonymous: Strike (1925 film); Jour de fate; Broken Blossoms; Man with a Camera; The ConformistThe Sunflower

Bhob Stewart: Dennis Potter teleplays for BBC's Play for Today: "Double Dare"; "Blue Hills Remembered" (scroll down! a possibly NSFW painting is also on the way as one scrolls)

The Big Broadcast: 24 April 
  • 07:00p Johnny Dollar
    01/08/61 #722 The Paperback Mystery (Multiple Sponsors) (CBS) (22:48)
  • 07:20p Bob & Ray segments from NBC? MBS?
  • 07:30p Dragnet
    08/10/54 #260 Big Wish (NBC) (24:36)
  • 08:00p Gunsmoke
    08/11/57 #279 Jayhawkers (04/04/53) (Sus.) (CBS) (28:42)
  • 08:30p Aldrich Family
    #438 Grab Bag Sale at Springer's Dept. Store (Jello) (NBC) (29:38)
  • 09:00p Halls of Ivy
    05/10/50 #19 Mrs. Whitney's Statue (Schlitz Beer) (NBC) (29:58)
  • 09:30p Dr. Kildare
    02/22/50 Alice Bradley (MGM Syndication) (28:08)
  • 10:00p Lux Radio Theater
    10/07/40 Wings of the Navy (Lux) (CBS) (59:52)

Bill Crider: You Never Can Tell  [blurry excerpt]

Brian Arnold: Jim Henson's Sam and FriendsHenson's Wilkins Coffee commercials; 1980s Saturday morning cartoon PSAs

NBC Experiment in Television: "The Cube" (produced, written [with Jerry Juhl] and directed by Jim Henson), 1969


B.V. Lawson: Media Murder

Colin McGulgan: Ambush

Comedy Film Nerds: Geoff Tate

Cult TV: The Avengers: "Nightmare"

Cynthia Fuchs: Elvis and Nixon; The Other Side

Dan Stumpf: Seven Sinners (aka Doomed Cargo)

The Dana Gould Hour: The People v. O. J. Simpson; Stan v. Evil's Laraine Newman and Janet Varney

David Vineyard: Crackerjack

Elizabeth Foxwell:  X Marks the Spot; Doris Roberts in Brenner

Gary Deane: La noche avanza

George Kelley: Escape from Alcatraz

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast: Kliph Nesteroff

"Gilligan Newton-John": Jeunes Filles Impudiques; Les Démoniaques (some NSFW imagery)


Iba Dawson: Sundance Festival recap

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Spies (1928 film); Try and Get Me!

Jackie Kashian: Mike Lawrence on professional wrestling and its offshoots

Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show

James Clark: Le doulos

James Reasoner: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Janet Varney: Tawny Newsome

Jerry House: Batman (1943 movie serial); Tedx: Niko Everett: Meet Yourself

"John Grant": Daring Daughters; Cha Wu Ci Ren

Jonathan Lewis: Wagon Master; Beast of the Yellow Night; Secret of the Incas

Juri Nummelin: Battle Beyond the Stars

Justin LaLiberty: underrated 1986 films

Karen Hannsberry: Turner Classic Movies Film Festival 2015

Ken Levine: Disneyland 1964


Kristina Dijan: The Earrings of Madame de...; The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Half-Naked Truth

Laura G: Deception; Key Witness; Dead Reckoning; Young Man with a Horn; Meet Danny Wilson; Outside the Wall; Flesh and Fury

Lucy Brown: The Half-Naked Truth


Martin Edwards: The Gray Man; Marcella

Marty McKee: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold; Assassination; Trouble Man; The Eiger Sanction 
The Gray Man...about Albert Fish

Mildred Perkins: Night of the Living Dorks; Ender's Game

Mitchell Hadley: television, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MayDay 1968

Patricia Nolan-Hall: City for Conquest

Patti Abbott: Raising Arizona

Rick: Phantom Lady; Empire of the Ants; insect movies; The Prize; Cinderella (the film of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical)

Robert/Television Obscurities: Glynis

Rod Lott: King Kong Lives; Shadows in an Empty Room; Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure; Flight 7500

Ruth Kerr: Woman on the Run

Sam Juliano: Tribeca 2016

Sergio Angelini: The Scarlet Claw (aka Sherlock Holmes in Canada); Hitchcock film poll

Stacia Jones: Brotherly Love; Not So Dumb; The Woman in White; The Florodora Girl

Steve Lewis: The Ray Bradbury Theater: "The Crowd"

Vienna: Samuel Goldwyn Productions; Universal Pictures

Walter Albert: Peter Pan (1924 film)

Peter Pan, Yankee Patriot:


My Favorite Brunette

4 comments:

Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...

I really like the look of some nay of these - never even hear do HALF NAKED TRUTH before (whereas I saw BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS at the cinem and han still gum the music score!) - thanks, as ever, for the new stuff and the tickling the brain cells out of their lethargy!

Todd Mason said...

When I'm not able to do this, I certainly miss bo th the pointers to unfamiliar material and the new takes on familiar work...not least your own, Sergio.

Kelly Robinson said...

Kicking myself for not posting my WAXWORKS review on Monday and letting you know. Some good stuff here. I'll read as many as I can.

Kelly Robinson said...

(I posted it late on Tuesday is what I mean.)