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:

  1. 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!

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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

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