Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: 19 April

Thanks as always to all contributors and readers, and please let me know if I've missed your contribution, or you'd like to have one registered here...household emergency delayed posting, so sorry about that, earlybirds...
Zasu Pitts as Hildegarde Withers, visible on cable channel TCM at 1p ET today.




Bill Crider: The Sword and the Sorcerer

Chuck Esola: Raw Force

David Vineyard: The Runaway Bus

Eric Peterson: The Trojan War

Evan Lewis: "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood"

James Reasoner: Lifeguard

Jerry House: Forty Naughty Girls

Patti Abbott: Kawasaki's Rose

Pearce Duncan: Prison (1987)

Randy Johnson: The Girl Hunters

Scott Cupp: Eight-Legged Freaks

Steve Lewis: Heat Lightning

Todd Mason: Crackers (1984)

Walter Albert: Man of the West

Of related interest:
Budd Schulberg: A Face in the Crowd

George Kelley: An Army of Phantoms by J. Hoberman

K. A. Laity: Converting Monks into Friars

Sara Gran: Escape from New York vs. Sweet Valley High
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6 comments:

  1. pattinase (abbott)April 19, 2011 at 2:54 PM

    I wish I had a kid to name Zasu. How could she not be a comedienne?

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  2. Todd MasonApril 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM

    Or a budding pianist...or was the Zasu in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE the piano student?

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  3. Alice ChangApril 24, 2011 at 3:01 AM

    Thanks for discussing these overlooked films!

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  4. Todd MasonApril 25, 2011 at 1:01 PM

    Thanks, Qi. You could write one up, too, if you wanted.

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  5. C. Margery KempeApril 25, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    Not to nitpick, but that's Zuzu in Wonderful Life.

    :-D

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  6. Todd MasonApril 25, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    A Zu-pick. A Za-pick. A sentimental fam-flick. It has been a while.

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